Mesosemia

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Mesosemia
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Helicopis and Mesosemia
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Arthropoda
Class:
Insecta
Order:
Lepidoptera
Family:
Riodinidae
Subfamily:
Riodininae
Genus:
Mesosemia

Hübner, 1819
Synonyms
  • Diophtalma Boisduval, [1836]

Mesosemia is a genus in the butterfly family Riodinidae present only in the Neotropical realm.

This genus rather closely approximates the genus Eurybia, though it is by no means so uniform. Also here there is in most of the species almost exactly above the middle of the forewing a large eyespot which often exhibits two or three white pupils, and where it is absent, one mostly finds yet its traces in the shape of a small central shade or minute cloud. The Mesosemia differ from the Eurybia by their smaller heads, the shorter antennae, the borders of the forewings being generally slightly curved, the short abdomen mostly not reaching as far as the anal angle, the longer hindwings being often geniculate (knee like) in the middle of the distal margin, or angularly protended (held out). The row of distal marginal spots of the hindwing is always absent, the hindwings, however, show in the disk more or less parallel transverse stripes. The sexual dimorphism, which is not noticed in Eurybia is here the rule and mostly very much pronounced. The butterflies are often met with on blossoms, still oftener on leaves, but they seem to rest much on their under surface in order to come forth only for a short time for the sake of copulation and feeding. Then they perform jerky movements on the leaves, stretching the antennae straight forward, placing the hindwings flat on the leaf and slightly raising the forewings. In this manner they hasten from one leaf to another, from one branch to another, more jumping than flying, as Fassl expresses himself. The butterflies are partly extremely local and some of them are very rare.[1]

Species[]

  • Brévignon, 1997 present in French Guiana
  • Hewitson, 1873 present in Brazil
  • Hewitson, 1869 present in Ecuador
  • Hewitson, 1869 present in Ecuador, Bolivia and Peru
  • Schaus, 1913 present in Costa Rica and Panama
  • Stichel, 1910 present in Peru
  • Stichel, 1915 present in Ecuador
  • Hewitson, 1859 present in French Guiana, Guyana, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, Ecuador and Brazil
  • Stichel, 1915 present in Guyana
  • Hewitson, 1869 present in Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Panama, Ecuador and Colombia
  • Callaghan, 1999 present in Brazil
  • Sharpe, 1890 present in Brazil
  • Druce, 1904 present in Colombia
  • Bates, 1866 present in Costa Rica and Panama
  • Druce, 1874 present in Costa Rica and Colombia
  • Godman & Salvin, [1885] present in Costa Rica and Colombia
  • Salazar & Constantino, 1993 present in Colombia
  • Stichel, 1909 present in Ecuador
  • Hewitson, 1859 present in Brazil
  • Stichel, 1910 present in Brazil
  • Lathy, 1932 present in Brazil and French Guiana
  • Stichel, 1910 present in Brazil
  • (Cramer, 1776) present in French Guiana, French Guiana, Suriname, Peru and Brazil
  • Hewitson, 1859 present in French Guiana
  • Stichel, 1910 Ecuador and Peru.
  • Gallard & Brévignon, 1989 present in French Guiana
  • Schaus, 1913 present in Costa Rica and Panama
  • Stichel, 1910 present in Suriname and Brazil
  • (Cramer, 1776) present in French Guiana, French Guiana, Suriname, Ecuador, Bolivia Peru and Brazil
  • Stichel, 1915 present in Brazil
  • Stichel, 1923 present in Brazil
  • Schaus, 1902 present in Brazil
  • Bates, 1865 Mexico, Nicaragua and Guatemala
  • J. & R. G. Maza, 1980 present in Mexico
  • Stichel, 1910 present in Peru
  • Westwood, 1851 present in Suriname, Peru and Brazil
  • Druce, 1874 present in Costa Rica and Panama
  • DeVries & Hall, 1996 present in Costa Rica and Panama
  • Stichel, 1910 present in Peru and Bolivia
  • Butler, 1874 present in Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Venezuela and Brazil
  • Stichel, 1909 present in Costa Rica and Colombia
  • Stichel, 1923 present in Brazil
  • Hewitson, 1859
  • Stichel, 1909 present in Brazil
  • Lathy, 1932 present in French Guiana
  • Butler, 1869 present in Colombia
  • Butler, 1874 present in Brazil, Bolivia and Peru.
  • D'Abrera, 1860 present in Colombia
  • Stichel, 1909 present in Suriname
  • Hewitson, 1857 present in Mexico, Honduras, Costa Rica, Guatemala and Colombia
  • Stichel, 1910 present in Peru
  • Butler, 1874 present in Ecuador
  • Hewitson, 1869 present in Ecuador, Colombia, Bolivia and Peru.
  • Stichel, 1910 present in Peru
  • Stichel, 1915 present in Brazil
  • Hewitson, 1859 present in Brazil
  • Hewitson, 1860 present in Ecuador, Brazil and Colombia
  • (C. & R. Felder, 1865) present in Ecuador and Colombia
  • Hewitson, 1859 present in Brazil
  • Hewitson, 1860 present in Suriname and Brazil
  • Hewitson, 1870 present in Ecuador
  • Hewitson, 1870 present in Ecuador
  • Schaus, 1902 present in Peru
  • Lathy, 1958 present in Brazil
  • Hewitson, 1858 present in Brazil
  • Hewitson, 1859 present in Brazil French Guiana
  • Hewitson, 1860 present in Brazil
  • Hewitson, 1859 present in Brazil
  • Hewitson, 1859 present in French Guiana, Bolivia, Peru and Brazil
  • Hewitson, 1860 present in Ecuador, Brazil, Bolivia and Peru
  • Hewitson, [1873] present in Ecuador
  • Hewitson, 1860 present in Brazil and Trinidad and Tobago
  • Hewitson, 1859 present in French Guiana, Guyana, Peru and Brazil
  • Hewitson, 1869 present in Ecuador
  • Hewitson, [1857] present in Ecuador, Peru and Colombia
  • (C. & R. Felder, 1865) present in Ecuador, Colombia and Bolivia
  • Hewitson, [1873] present in Peru
  • s Hewitson, 1859 present in Suriname and Brazil
  • Gallard, 1996 present in French Guiana
  • Hewitson, 1859 Brazil
  • Stichel, 1910 present in Peru
  • Hewitson, [1857] present in Brazil
  • Hewitson, 1860 present in Brazil
  • Hewitson, 1859 present in Brazil
  • Stichel, 1910 present in French Guiana, Guyana, Peru and Bolivia
  • Stichel, 1909 present in French Guiana, Guyana, Suriname, Ecuador, Peru and Brazil
  • Stichel, 1909 present in Bolivia
  • (Hoffmannsegg, 1818) present in Suriname and Brazil
  • Stichel, 1909 present in French Guiana
  • (Godart, [1824]) present in Brazil and Argentina
  • Bates, 1868 present in Peru and Brazil
  • Godman, 1903 present in French Guiana, Guyana, Suriname and Colombia
  • Hewitson, 1869 present in Ecuador
  • Stichel, 1926 present in Colombia
  • Callaghan, 2001 present in Brazil
  • Godman, 1903 present in Guyana
  • (Linnaeus, 1758) present in Suriname and Brazil
  • Stichel, 1910 present in Bolivia
  • Seitz, 1913 present in Peru
  • Hewitson, 1869 present in Ecuador
  • (Godart, [1824] present in Brazil)
  • Stichel, 1909 present in Suriname
  • Staudinger, [1887] present in Ecuador and Colombia
  • (Boisduval, 1836) present in French Guiana, Guyana, Ecuador and Colombia
  • Stichel, 1909 present in Brazil, Bolivia and Peru
  • Hewitson, 1858 present in Brazil
  • Stichel, 1909 present in Bolivia and Peru
  • Stichel, 1909 present in Brazil
  • (Boisduval, [1836]) present in Mexico, Costa Rica, Venezuela, Ecuador and Colombia
  • Hewitson, 1877 present in Brazil, Ecuador and Peru
  • Brévignon, 1995 present in French Guiana
  • Godman, 1903 present in Brazil
  • Godman & Salvin, [1885] present in Colombia
  • Stichel, 1910 present in Brazil
  • (Cramer, 1777) present in Suriname and Colombia
  • (Cramer, 1777) present in Suriname, Ecuador and Peru
  • Butler, 1871 present in Brazil
  • Hewitson, 1869 present in Ecuador and Colombia
  • Hewitson, 1869 present in Ecuador
  • Godman & Salvin, [1885] present in Honduras and Panama
  • Hewitson, 1869 present in Ecuador, Colombia and Peru
  • Brévignon, 1998 present in French Guiana

Sources[]

  1. ^ Seitz, A. 1916. Family:Erycinidae. In A. Seitz (editor), Macrolepidoptera of the world,vol. 5:617–738. Stuttgart: Alfred Kernen.[1] also available as pdf

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