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Pearly-eyes and Allies
Lethe
Lethe is a butterfly genus from the subfamily Satyrinae in the family Nymphalidae. The genus was erected by Jacob Hübner in 1819. It includes the treebrowns, woodbrowns, foresters and their relatives. The species in the genus Lethe occur in temperate-tropical southern and eastern Asia, up to Indonesia and in North America.
60 branches of this genus, most-observed first
Pearly-eyes
subgenusEnodia
Satyrodes
subgenusSatyrodes
Banded Treebrown
speciesLethe confusa
Bamboo Treebrown
speciesLethe europa
Angled Red Forester
speciesLethe chandica
Straight-banded Treebrown
speciesLethe verma
Common Treebrown
speciesLethe rohria
Diana treebrown
speciesLethe diana
Common Forester
speciesLethe hyrania
Japanese Treebrown
speciesLethe sicelis
Yellow Forester
speciesLethe syrcis
Red Forester
speciesLethe mekara
Tamil Treebrown
speciesLethe drypetis
Common Woodbrown Butterfly
speciesLethe sidonis
Scarce Lilacfork
speciesLethe dura
Banded Red Forester
speciesLethe minerva
Black Forester
speciesLethe vindhya
Bamboo Forester
speciesLethe kansa
Lethe mataja
speciesLethe mataja
treble silverstripe
speciesLethe baladeva
Tailed Red Forester
speciesLethe sinorix
Small Labyrinth
speciesLethe callipteris
Formosan Lilacfork
speciesLethe niitakana
Lethe satyrina
speciesLethe satyrina
Lethe christophi
speciesLethe christophi
Lethe butleri
speciesLethe butleri
Lethe manthara
speciesLethe manthara
Darena Forester
speciesLethe darena
Manipur Forester
speciesLethe violaceopicta
yellow woodbrown
speciesLethe nicetas
Naga Treebrown
speciesLethe naga
Lethe lanaris
speciesLethe lanaris
Lethe arete
speciesLethe arete
Lethe procne
speciesLethe procne
scarce woodbrown
speciesLethe siderea
Lethe marginalis
speciesLethe marginalis
Lethe moupinensis
speciesLethe moupinensis
Lethe helena
speciesLethe helena
Bornean Treebrown
speciesLethe perimede
rusty forester
speciesLethe bhairava
Lethe baucis
speciesLethe baucis
Sri Lanka treebrown
speciesLethe daretis
barred woodbrown
speciesLethe maitrya
Brown Forester
speciesLethe serbonis
Lilacfork
speciesLethe sura
Pale Forester
speciesLethe latiaris
Lethe helle
speciesLethe helle
Ceylon forester
speciesLethe dynsate
Dull Forester
speciesLethe gulnihal
Large Goldenfork
speciesLethe goalpara
Lethe trimacula
speciesLethe trimacula
Lethe uemurai
speciesLethe uemurai
Silverline Treebrown
speciesLethe gemina
Lethe albolineata
speciesLethe albolineata
Lethe cyrene
speciesLethe cyrene
Lethe yunnana
speciesLethe yunnana
Scarce Red Forester
speciesLethe distans
White-wedged Woodbrown
speciesLethe dakwania
Blue Forester
speciesLethe scanda
Lethe gregoryi
speciesLethe gregoryi
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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In the stacks
Searching the stacks…
Every page naming Lethe in the Biodiversity Heritage Library →
This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 125501.