Polygonia

Polygonia (Graece πολύς 'multi', Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon, Perseus. + γωνία 'angulus', Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon, Perseus.) est genus papilionum cui est conspicua macula alba in inferiori cuiusque alae posterioris latere, unde comma, nomen generale. Eis etiam sunt consipcuae incisurae angulares in exterioribus eorum alarum anteriorum marginibus. Nymphalis, genus cognatum, species similes comprehendit, et Polygonia eius subgenus aliquando habetur."Nymphalis Kluk, 1780" in Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms, situ a Markka Savela facto.

Multae Polygoniae adultae hibernant.Scott, J. A. (1999). Hibernal diapause of North American Papilionoidea and Hesperioidea. Journal of Research on the Lepidoptera 18(3):171-200.

Species
Inter species sunt:Polygonia, Tree of LifeWahlberg, N. et al. (2009). Timing major conflict between mitochondrial and nuclear genes in species relationships of Polygonia butterflies (Nymphalidae: Nymphalini). BMC Evolutionary Biology 9:92.
 Polygonia c-album (Linnaeus, 1758)
 Polygonia c-aureum (Linnaeus, 1758)
 Polygonia comma (Harris, 1842)
 Polygonia egea (Cramer, 1775)
 Polygonia faunus (Edwards, 1862)
 Polygonia g-argenteum Doubleday & Hewitson, 1846
 Polygonia gigantea (Leech, 1883)
 Polygonia gracilis (Grote & Robinson, 1867)
 Polygonia haroldii Dewitz, 1877
 Polygonia interposita (Staudinger, 1881)
 Polygonia interrogationis (Fabricius, 1798)
 Polygonia oreas (Edwards, 1869)
 Polygonia progne (Cramer, 1775)
 Polygonia satyrus (Edwards, 1869)
 Polygonia undina (Grum-Grshimailo, 1890)
 Polygonia zephyrus (Edwards, 1870)

Notae

Nexus externi

Nymphalidae. Butterflies of Canada.''
Fric, Zdeněk. Nymphalis.

Categoria:Nymphalini
Categoria:Taxa Hübner
Categoria:Taxa 1819