Mesene (butterfly)
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| Genus: | Mesene Doubleday, 1847
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Mesene is a genus in the butterfly family Riodinidae present in the Neotropical realm.
Riodinidae Mesene exhibit many color variations and combinations and vary by geographic region. The males have triangular, pointed, brightly coloured forewings and small ellipsoidal hindwings. In the wing veins the species exhibit great conformity, the second subcostal vein, the upper median vein in the forewing as well as in the hindwing rise before the cell-end. They rest well hidden on the under surface of leaves but fly when disturbed somewhat like geometrids for about 10 to 20 metres always keeping in the middle of the forest roads, in order to drop again into another bush. The larvae are lycaenid like, somewhat like woodlice, fluffily haired; that of M. phareus lives on the extremely poisonous Paullinia pinnata to the leaf of which also the small greenish-yellow pupa is spun.
Species[]
- Hall & Willmott, 1995 present in Ecuador
- (Stoll, 1790) present in French Guiana, Guyana, Suriname
- Bates, 1868 present in Venezuela and Brazil
- Hall & Willmott, 1995 present in Ecuador, Colombia and Brazil
- Bates, 1865 present in Mexico and Costa Rica
- (Hewitson, 1874) present in Brazil, Ecuador and Peru
- (Stoll, 1780) present in French Guiana, Guyana, Suriname and Brazil
- (Fabricius, 1793) present in Brazil
- C. & R. Felder, 1865 present in Colombia
- Callaghan & Salazar, 1999 present in Colombia
- Bates, 1868 present in Suriname, Brazil and Peru
- Godman & Salvin, [1886] present in Guatemala
- (White, 1843) present in Mexico, Colombia, Bolivia and Venezuela
- (Erichson, [1849]) present in French Guiana, Guyana, Suriname, Venezuela and Brazil
- Schaus, 1913 present in Costa Rica and Panama
- Möschler, 1877 present in French Guiana, Guyana, Suriname, Ecuador, Colombia and Brazil
- Herrich-Schäffer, [1853] present in Suriname, Ecuador, Bolivia and Brazil
- Bates, 1868 present in Brazil
- Brévignon, 1995 present in French Guiana
- (Cramer, [1777]) present in Mexico, Colombia, French Guiana, Guyana, Suriname, Brazil and Peru
- Hewitson, 1874 present in Brazil
- Hewitson, 1874 present in Brazil
- Stichel, 1910 present in Colombia
- Godman & Salvin, 1878 present in French Guiana, Guyana, Suriname, Ecuador, Venezuela, Guatemala and Peru
- Bates, 1868 present in Brazil
- Stichel, 1923 present in Brazil
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- Riodininae
- Riodinidae of South America
- Butterfly genera
- Taxa named by Edward Doubleday