Polygonia c-album alas angulares et maculam commatiforme habet.
Polygonia (Graece πολύς 'multi'[ 1] + γωνία 'angulus '[ 2] ) 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.[ 3]
Multae Polygoniae adultae hibernant .[ 4]
Inter species sunt:[ 5] [ 6]
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)
↑ [1] , Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon , Perseus.
↑ [2] , Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon , Perseus.
↑ "Nymphalis Kluk, 1780" in Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms, situ a Markka Savela facto.
↑ Scott, J. A. (1999). Hibernal diapause of North American Papilionoidea and Hesperioidea. Journal of Research on the Lepidoptera 18(3):171-200.
↑ Polygonia , Tree of Life
↑ Wahlberg, 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.