Catonephele acontius
| Catonephele acontius | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Nymphalidae |
| Subfamily: | Biblidinae |
| Tribe: | Epicaliini |
| Genus: | Catonephele |
| Species: | C. acontius |
| Binomial name | |
| Catonephele acontius (Linnaeus, 1771) | |
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The Acontius Firewing, Catonephele acontius is a nymphalid butterfly species found in South America. It was first described by Carl Linnaeus in 1771 (who gave the type location as "China", a designation followed by some later authors).
Description
(Male, described by Dru Drury): Upper Side. Antennae, head, thorax, and abdomen black. Wings fine velvety black. An orange-coloured bar, about one-fourth of an inch broad, rises in the middle of the superior wings, running circularly and crossing the inferior ones, meeting about the middle of the abdominal edges.
Under Side. Palpi white. Tongue brown. Breast and legs white. Abdomen yellow-brown. Wings shining brown, exhibiting various shades of changeable colours; the tips terminating in an ash colour. Wings scarcely dentated. Wing-span 2¾ inches (70 mm).[1]
Subspecies
- Catonephele acontius acontius (Guianas, Surinam, Brazil: Amazonas)
- Catonephele acontius caeruleus Jenkins, 1985 (Bolivia)