Symmachia accusatrix

Symmachia accusatrix
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Riodinidae
Genus: Symmachia
Species:
S. accusatrix
Binomial name
Symmachia accusatrix

Symmachia accusatrix is a butterfly species present in Mexico, Ecuador, Colombia, Brazil and French Guiana.

The forewing is black (female blackish brown) in the costal part very much spotted in white. The female has white and reddish dots in the disc, in the male the costal part of the hindwing is scarlet red. Central America to the Amazon. Rare.

See also

References

  1. ^ "Symmachia Hübner, [1819]" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms. Retrieved May 19, 2017.
  • "Symmachia accusatrix". The Encyclopedia of Life.