Actinote melampeplos

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Actinote melampeplos
Systematics
Class : Insects (Insecta)
Order : Butterflies (Lepidoptera)
Family : Noble butterfly (Nymphalidae)
Subfamily : Heliconiinae
Genre : Actinote
Type : Actinote melampeplos
Scientific name
Actinote melampeplos
Godman & Salvin , 1881

Actinote melampeplos is a butterfly fromthe noble butterfly family (Nymphalidae). The species is known from Costa Rica , Panama , Ecuador and Colombia . Since it occurs in August as well as December and March, it is assumed that itfliesin several generations per year ( multivoltin ). Their food plants are still unknown.

features

The male moths have a wingspan of 27 to 30 millimeters. The females, on the other hand, are slightly larger and measure between 33 and 38 millimeters. The front pair of wings is darkly colored with a distinctive yellowish band and a triangular-like spot of the same color. The color is more pronounced in the female. The triangular spot extends from the base of the wing to just before the edge of the disk region , but is bounded by a darker area on the wing leading edge as well as on the inner edge. Inside the spot there is a noticeable brownish vein that divides in the distal third. The second band extends over the entire wing width, except for small margins, begins post-median and extends to the beginning of the wing tip (subapical). With the exception of the dark submarginal region and the black veins running through the wing, the hind wings are light orange in the males and yellowish orange in the females. The underside of both pairs of wings is tinted a little weaker, but has the same pattern.

swell

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b M. Gonzalo Andrade-C: Monograpfías de FAUNA DE COLOMBIA: 1. NYMPHALIDAE ACRAEINAE Actinote , p. 89ff, Bogotá: Instituto de Ciencias Naturales, 1995.
  2. ↑ Marlon Paluch: Revisao das especies de Actinote Hubner (1819) (Lepidoptera, Nymphalidae, Heliconiinae, Acraeini) , p. 159ff, Curitiba, 2006.
  3. ↑ Frederick DuCane Godman and Osbert Salvin, Insecta. Lepidoptera Rhopalocera. Volume I. [London: published for the editors by RH Porter]: 1879-1901.

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