Denivia

Denivia is a genus of gossamer-winged butterflies in the family Lycaenidae. There are at least 16 described species in Denivia, found in Central and South America.^[1][2]

The Denivia was formerly considered a synonym of the genus Theritas. In phylogenetic studies published in 2019, the following species were classified in the genus Denivia.

These species belong to the genus Denivia:

• Denivia acontius (Goodson, 1945) - Panama south to the Amazonian Region
• Denivia adamsi (H.H. Druce, 1909) - Peru (generic placement uncertain)
• Denivia arene (Goodson, 1945) - Ecuador and Peru
• Denivia augustinula (Goodson, 1945) - Mexico to northern Colombia
• Denivia augustula (W.F. Kirby, 1877) - Costa Rica and Panama to western Ecuador
• Denivia chaluma (Schaus, 1902) - central and southern Brazil
• Denivia curitabaensis (K. Johnson, 1992) - Brazil
• Denivia deniva (Hewitson, 1874) - Argentina and Southern Brazil
• Denivia espiritosanto Bálint & Moser, 2007 - eastern Brazil
• Denivia hemon (Cramer, 1775) - Neotropics
• Denivia lisus (Stoll, 1790) - Mexico to southern Brazil
• Denivia monica (Hewitson, 1867) - Venezuela to Bolivia
• Denivia phegeus (Hewitson, 1865) - Brazil
• Denivia silma (Martins, Faynel, & Robbins, 2016) - Amazonian Region south to Paraguay and Brazil
• Denivia theocritus (Fabricius, 1793) - Mexico to western Ecuador
• Denivia viresco (H.H. Druce, 1907) - Amazonian Region

• Denivia phegeus, Brasil
• Denivia theocritus, Honduras
• Denivia lisus, Surinam
• Denivia espiritosanto, Brasil
• Denivia monica, Perú
• Denivia chaluma, Argentina