Taxonavigation

Familia: Nymphalidae
Subfamilia: Satyrinae
Tribus: Satyrini
Subtribus: Hypocystina
Genus: Platypthima
Species: (per Parsons, 1986: 148).
P. antapa – P. dispar – P. homochroa – P. leucomelas – P. placiva – P. ornata – P. simplex

Name

Platypthima Rothschild & Jordan, 1905: 458.

Type species: Platypthima ornata Rothschild & Jordan, 1905.

References

• Joicey, J.J. & Talbot, G., 1922. New Forms of Butterflies from Dutch New Guinea. Bulletin of the Hill Museum: 1922 1(2): 325-334 BHL Reference page. 

• Parsons, M., 1986. A new genus and twenty-six new species of butterflies (Lepidoptera, Hesperiidae, Lycaenidae, Nymphalidae) from Papua New Guinea and Irian Jaya. Tyô to Ga 37 (3): 103-177, 160 figs. web. Reference page. 

• Rothschild, W. & Jordan, K. 1905. On some new Lepidoptera discovered by A. S. Meek in British New Guinea. Novitates Zoologae 12: 448–478. BHL Reference page.