Argyrogrammana trochilia

Argyrogrammana trochilia
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Riodinidae
Genus:	Argyrogrammana
Species:	A. trochilia
Binomial name
	Argyrogrammana trochilia; (Westwood, 1851)

Argyrogrammana trochilia described by John Obadiah Westwood in 1851 is a butterfly of the family Riodinidae^[2] It is found in Colombia, Bolivia, Lower Amazon -Brazil and the Guianas.

Description

The male is of a brilliant sky-blue with black transverse stripes and a dark distal margin being finely filled up by orange. The female has 5 yellow stripes on a dark ground and a metallic line often reduced to tiny spots before the border. Under surface of both sexes striped like a zebra. On the Lower Amazon the species is not very rare.^[3] images.

References

^ "Argyrogrammana Staudinger, [1887]" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
^ Westwood, J.O. [1851]. In Doubleday, E. & Westwood, J. O., 1850–1852: The genera of diurnal Lepidoptera Vol.2. pp.251–534, pls. 31–80 + Suppl.pl. London.
^ 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..

[1] "Argyrogrammana Staudinger, [1887]" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms

[2] Westwood, J.O. [1851]. In Doubleday, E. & Westwood, J. O., 1850–1852: The genera of diurnal Lepidoptera Vol.2. pp.251–534, pls. 31–80 + Suppl.pl. London.

[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..

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