kingdom: Animalia >
phylum: Arthropoda >
class: Insecta >
order: Lepidoptera Linnaeus, 1758 >
superfamily: Papilionoidea >
family: Nymphalidae >
subfamily: Danainae >
tribe: Ithomiini >
genus: Mechanitis Fabricius, 1807 >
species: Mechanitis lysimnia (Fabricius, 1793) >