The Nature LibraryEN·ES
iNat·335534GenusInsecta2,046 field observations
  1. Animals
  2. ›Arthropods
  3. ›Hexapods
  4. ›Insects
  5. ›Winged and Once-winged Insects
  6. ›True Bugs, Hoppers, Aphids, and allies
  7. ›True Bugs
  8. ›Pentatomomorph Bugs
  9. ›Leaf-footed Bugs and Allies
  10. ›Leaf-footed Bugs
  11. ›Coreinae
  12. ›Colpurini
Hygia
Plate 1 of 1. (c) Sunnetchan, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-ND), uploaded by Sunnetchan · via iNaturalist

Hygia

In Greek as well as Roman mythology, Hygieia (also Hygiea or Hygeia; Ancient Greek: Ὑγιεία or Ὑγεία, Latin: Hygēa or Hygīa), was one of the Aeclepiadae; the sons and daughters of the god of medicine, Asclepius, and the goddess of healing, Epione. She was the goddess/personification of health (Greek: ὑγίεια - hugieia), cleanliness and hygiene.

Continue reading on Wikipedia
§·

Where it lives

Recorded sightings

—

geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.

Drag the globe to turn it. Dots are where records exist, not a range map; darker means more records.

§·

In the stacks

Searching the stacks…

Every page naming Hygia 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 335534.