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Higginsius
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Nymphalidae
Subfamily:	Nymphalinae
Tribe:	Melitaeini
Genus:	Higginsius Hemming, 1964
Synonyms
Fulvia Higgins,

Higginsius is a genus of butterflies from north-eastern South America in the family Nymphalidae.

Species

• Higginsius fasciata (Hopffer, 1874) – fasciata crescent (Peru, Ecuador, Colombia)
• Higginsius miriam (Dognin, 1888) (Ecuador, Colombia)

References

1. "Higginsius Hemming, 1964" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms

• Melitaeini
• Nymphalidae of South America
• Butterfly genera
• Taxa named by Francis Hemming