Argyrogrammana barine

Argyrogrammana barine
illustration accompanying the original description
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Riodinidae
Genus: Argyrogrammana
Species:
A. barine
Binomial name
Argyrogrammana barine
(Staudinger, [1887])[1]

Argyrogrammana barine described by Otto Staudinger in 1887 is a butterfly of the family Riodinidae[2] It is found in Costa Rica, Ecuador and Colombia.

Description

A. barine Stgr. (135, as barsine). The male has behind the middle of the forewing a smalt-like spot placed on the inner margin, and dark small spots in the disc of both wings: the female is lighter, yellowish-grey, with darker macular bands and a blackish distal marginal part of the forewing with a blue spot before the middle of the border. images. [3]

References

  1. ^ "Argyrogrammana Staudinger, [1887]" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
  2. ^ Staudinger, O., 1888, in Staudinger, O. & Schatz, E., 1884–1888. Exotische Schmetterlinge 1. Exotische Tagfalter , 333 pp. 100
  3. ^ Seitz after Hans Stichel Mss., 1913. Family: Riodinidae. In A. Seitz (editor), Macrolepidoptera of the World, vol. 5: 333–356. Stuttgart: Alfred Kernen This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain..