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Nessaea aglaura (Butterfly)

Synonyms: Catonephele aglaura

Wikipedia Abstract

The Common Olivewing, Northern Nessaea, or Aglaura Olivewing (Nessaea aglaura) is a species of butterfly of the Nymphalidae family. It is found from Mexico to Panama, Ecuador, Venezuela, and Colombia. It is found in evergreen tropical forest and in semi-deciduous tropical forest. The length of the wings is 31–34 mm for males and 28–36 mm for females. Adults are on wing nearly year round. The larvae feed on Alchornea costaricensis and Plukenetia volubilis.
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Infraspecies

Nessaea aglaura aglaura
Nessaea aglaura ecuadorensis

Prey / Diet

Alchornea costaricensis[1]
Plukenetia stipellata[2]
Plukenetia verrucosa[2]

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Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1HOSTS - a Database of the World's Lepidopteran Hostplants Gaden S. Robinson, Phillip R. Ackery, Ian J. Kitching, George W. Beccaloni AND Luis M. Hernández
♦ 2Jorrit 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.
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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