Tiger Beauty

Tigridia acesta

Mariposa Tigre

Family: Nymphalidae
Order: Lepidoptera
Class: Insecta
Phylum / Division: Arthropoda
Kingdom: Animalia

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Description

Tigridia acesta, the tiger beauty, is a butterfly of the monotypic genus Tigridia in the family Nymphalidae found from Mexico to South America.

It is sometimes placed in the tribe Coeini and sometimes in the tribe Nymphalini.

Subspecies:

Tigridia acesta acesta (Linnaeus, 1758) (Mexico)
Tigridia acesta columbina (Neustetter, 1929) (Colombia)
Tigridia acesta fulvescens (Butler, 1873) (Peru, Ecuador)
Tigridia acesta latifascia (Butler, 1873) (Colombia)
Tigridia acesta ochracea (Bryk, 1953) (Peru)
Tigridia acesta tapajona (Butler, 1873) (Brazil)

Source: Wikipedia, article Tigridia acesta. Content adapted from Wikipedia, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license. Accessed on 17/07/2026.