Porthecla porthura
| Porthecla porthura | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Lycaenidae |
| Genus: | Porthecla |
| Species: | P. porthura |
| Binomial name | |
| Porthecla porthura (Druce, 1907)[1] | |
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Porthecla porthura is a butterfly in the Lycaenidae family. It is found from Honduras to western Ecuador in forests up to altitudes of 1,150 meters.
The length of the forewings is 17.7 mm for males and 17.3 mm for females.[2] Adults are on wing year round.
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- ↑ Porthecla at funet.fi
- ↑ Faynel, C. ; R.C. Busby ; A. Moser & R.K. Robbins, 2011: Species level taxonomy of the Neotropical hairstreak genus Porthecla (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae: Theclinae: Eumaeini). Annales de la Société Entomologique de France (n.s.), 47(1-2): 241-259
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