Siderone galanthis
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Siderone galanthis | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Family: | Nymphalidae |
Genus: | Siderone |
Species: | S. galanthis
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Binomial name | |
Siderone galanthis | |
Synonyms | |
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Siderone galanthis, the scarlet leafwing or red-striped leafwing, is a species of butterfly of the family Nymphalidae. It is found from Mexico to southern Brazil. The habitat consists deciduous and evergreen forests at altitudes up to 900 meters.
Adults have been recorded imbibing mineralised moisture from the ground.[2]
The larvae have been recorded feeding on Casearia sylvestris and Zuelania quidonia.
Subspecies
- Siderone galanthis galanthis (Surinam, Brazil: Pará, Trinidad)
- Siderone galanthis thebais C. & R. Felder, 1862 (Colombia, Ecuador, Brazil: Amazonas)
References
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Siderone galanthis.
Wikispecies has information related to Siderone galanthis.
- ^ "Siderone Hübner, [1823]" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
- ^ Butterflies of the Amazon and Andes
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- Anaeini
- Butterflies of North America
- Butterflies of Central America
- Butterflies of the Caribbean
- Nymphalidae of South America
- Butterflies of Cuba
- Lepidoptera of Brazil
- Lepidoptera of Venezuela
- Butterflies described in 1775
- Taxa named by Pieter Cramer
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