Diaphanos is a genus of butterflies in the family Nymphalidae. There are three recognised species in the Neotropics, and one undescribed subspecies of D. huberi.

Species

  • Diaphanos curvignathos Viloria, 1994
  • Diaphanos fuscus Viloria, 1994
  • Diaphanos huberi Adams & Bernard, 1981

Taxonomy

The type species by original designation is Diaphanos huberi Adams & Bernard, 1981 from the Cordillera de Merida in Venezuela. It was originally considered to be a monobasic genus, but two additional species were described from separate mountaintops in the Venezuelan Andes.

  • Adams, M.J. & G.I. Bernard, 1981, Pronophiline butterflies (Satyridae) of the Cordillera de Mérida, Venezuela, Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 71: 343–373.