Taxonavigation

Familia: Riodinidae
Subfamilia: Riodininae
Tribus: Eurybiini
SubTribe: Eurybiina
Genus: Alesa
Species: A. amesis – A. amethystina – A. beneluzi – A. esmeralda – A. fournierae – A. hemiurga – A. humilis – A. lipara – A. prema – A. rothschildi – A. suzana – A. telephae – A. thelydrias

Name

Alesa Doubleday, 1847: 1.

Type species: Erycina prema Godart, 1824: 569, by selection of Scudder, 1875: 107.

References

• Bates, H.W. 1868. A Catalogue of Erycinidae, a Family of Diurnal Lepidoptera. Journal of the Linnean Society of London 9: 367-459. BHL. Reference page. 

• Brévignon, C., 2015b: Un nouvel Eurybiini du genre Alesa de Guyane française (Lepidoptera, Riodinidae). Bulletin de la Société entomologique de France, 120(4): 453–456.Reference page. 

• Doubleday, E. 1847. List of the specimens of lepidopterous insects in the collection of the British Museum, Part 2, London. BHL Reference page. 

• Gallard, J.Y. & Fernandez, S. 2015. Deux nouvelles espèces du genre Alesa découvertes en Guyane française (Lepidoptera, Riodinidae, Eurybiini). Bulletin de la Société entomologique de France, 120(2): 135–142. Reference page. 

• Godart, J. B. 1819–1824. In Latreille & Godart, Encyclopedie méthodique. Histoire naturelle des Crustacés, des Arachnides et des Insectes 9 (article Papillons) (1): 1–328; (2): 329–828. Paris. Vol. 1, Vol. 2. Reference page. 
• Hall & Ahrenholz, 2010: A new species of Alesa (Riodinidae: Eurybiini) from eastern Ecuador. Tropical Lepidoptera Research 20 (1): 19–22.

• Lamas, G. 2004. Checklist: Part 4A. Hesperioidea - Papilionoidea. In Heppner, J.B. (ed.) Atlas of Neotropical Lepidoptera. Vol. 5A. Association for Tropical Lepidoptera/Scientific Publishers, Gainesville. 439p. Reference page. 
• Salazar, E, J.A. & Constantino, L.M., 2007: New species of (Lepidoptera: Pieridae, Nymphalidae, Satyrinae, Ithomiinae, Riodinidae) in Colombia. Boletín Científico Museo de Historia Natural de Caldas, 11 (1): 167–186. Full article:

• Scudder, S.H. 1875. Historical sketch of the generic names proposed for butterflies. Proc. amer. Soc. Arts Sci. Boston 10: 91–293. BHL Reference page. 

• Seitz, A., 1910-1924. Die Amerikanischen Tagfalter. in Grossschmettelinge Erde 5: 3-1055, pls 1-194. Alfred Kernan, Stuttgart. BHL text, plates Reference page.