Adelpha mesentina
Adelpha mesentina | |
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Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Family: | Nymphalidae |
Genus: | Adelpha |
Species: | A. mesentina
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Binomial name | |
Adelpha mesentina | |
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Adelpha mesentina, the mesentina sister, is a species of butterfly of the family Nymphalidae. It is found in the eastern Andes from Venezuela to Bolivia and also on the Guiana Shield and throughout the central and western Amazon basin.[2]
The wingspan is about 54 mm.[3]
References[]
- ^ "Adelpha Hübner, [1819]" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
- ^ Butterflies of Amazonia
- ^ Parque Nacional Sangay
Categories:
- Adelpha
- Nymphalidae of South America
- Butterflies described in 1777
- Taxa named by Pieter Cramer
- Limenitidinae stubs