Argyrogrammana leptographia

Argyrogrammana leptographia
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Riodinidae
Genus: Argyrogrammana
Species:
A. leptographia
Binomial name
Argyrogrammana leptographia
(Stichel, 1911)[1]

Argyrogrammana leptographia described by Hans Stichel[2] is a butterfly of the family Riodinidae. It is found in Costa Rica, Colombia and Ecuador.

Description

The male is very bright sky-blue of a sapphire-lustre, with a broader orange filling in the border and a blackishly dotted instead of striped under surface; taken by Fassl near Muzo in Colombia,[3] images

References

  1. ^ "Argyrogrammana Staudinger, [1887]" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
  2. ^ Stichel, H. 1910–1911. Lepidoptera, Rhopalocera, Riodinidae in Wytsman, P. 1866–1925. Genera Insectorum. Fasc. 112: 1–452, 27 pls.
  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..