Archaeoprepona

Archaeoprepona
	One-spotted prepona (A. demophon) dorsal
	A. demophon ventral, Cristalino River; Southern Amazon, Brazil
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Nymphalidae
Tribe:	Preponini
Genus:	Archaeoprepona; (Fruhstorfer, 1915)
Type species
	Papilio demophon; Linnaeus, 1758
Species
	See text
Synonyms
	Pseudoprepona Le Moult, 1932;

Archaeoprepona is a genus of Neotropical charaxine butterflies in the family Nymphalidae, native to Mexico, Central America, northern South America, and the Caribbean. The underside of their wings is pale brownish, while the upperside is dark with a distinct bright blue band.

Taxonomy[edit]

Most taxa were described before Hans Fruhstorfer coined the genus Archaeoprepona in 1916, and were therefore originally placed in other genera. This includes the type species of the genus, Archaeoprepona demophon, first described as Papilio demophon by Carl Linnaeus. Even after the description of the genus Archaeoprepona, the members have commonly been included in Prepona instead.

Species in the genus Archaeoprepona:^[1]^[2]

Archaeoprepona Fruhstorfer, 1915
- Archaeoprepona amphimachus (Fabricius, 1775) – white-spotted prepona or turquoise-banded shoemaker
- Archaeoprepona camilla (Godman & Salvin, [1884])
- Archaeoprepona chalciope (Hübner, [1823])
- Archaeoprepona demophon (Linnaeus, 1758) – one-spotted prepona, banded king shoemaker
- Archaeoprepona demophoon (Hübner, [1814]) – Hübner's shoemaker, silver king shoemaker
- Archaeoprepona licomedes (Cramer, [1777]) – Cramer's shoemaker
- Archaeoprepona meander (Cramer, [1775]) – Meander prepona
- Archaeoprepona phaedra (Godman & Salvin, [1884])