Chorinea sylphina
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Species: | C. sylphina
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Chorinea sylphina (sylphina angel) is a species of butterfly of the family Riodinidae. It is found in Ecuador, Peru, and Bolivia.
Adults fly in full sunshine, but occasionally settle beneath the leaves of bushes.[2]
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Categories:
- Riodinini
- Butterflies described in 1868
- Riodinidae of South America
- Taxa named by Henry Walter Bates
- Riodinidae stubs