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Catonephele acontius (Butterfly)

Synonyms: Catonephele antiochus; Catonephele chione; Catonephele eupalemaena; Catonephele eupalemon; Catonephele medea

Wikipedia Abstract

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).
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Infraspecies

Catonephele acontius acontius
Catonephele acontius exquisitus

Prey / Diet

Alchornea glandulosa (tamanqueiro)[1]
Alchornea glandulosa iricurana[2]
Aparisthmium cordatum[2]

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
♦ 2HOSTS - a Database of the World's Lepidopteran Hostplants Gaden S. Robinson, Phillip R. Ackery, Ian J. Kitching, George W. Beccaloni AND Luis M. Hernández
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Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0