Methone cecilia
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| Genus: | Methone Doubleday, 1847
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| Species: | M. cecilia
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| Methone cecilia (Cramer, [1777])
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Methone is a genus in the butterfly family Riodinidae present only in the Neotropical realm.
Taxonomy
The genus Methone is
monotypic
. The single species is Methone cecilia is unmistakably characterized by the conspicuous colouring and the deeply indented margin of the hindwing being continued in the female at the ends of the veins into teeth-like small tails. On the forewing the subcostal is four-branched; the branches 1 and 2 rise before, 3 and 4 behind the cell. The hindwing is without a basal vein. The palpi are extremely short.
The colouring resembles that of certain
List of subspecies
- M. c. cecilia present in Suriname and French Guiana
- M. c. chrysomela (Butler, 1872)[2] present in Costa Rica, Panama and Colombia
- M. c. magnarea (Seitz, 1913) present in
- M. c. eurotias (Stichel, 1919) present in Ecuador
- M. c. caduca (Stichel, 1919) present in Costa Rica
References
External links
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