title: Tigridia acesta
text: # Tigridia acesta
  
  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)
  * Male - MHNT
  * Male underside - MHNT
  