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Prepona laertes (Butterfly)

Synonyms: Nymphalis demodice (heterotypic); Potamis laertes; Prepona pallidior

Wikipedia Abstract

The Shaded-Blue Leafwing or Laertes Prepona (Prepona laertes) is a butterfly of the Nymphalidae family. It is found in large parts of Central and South America. The wingspan is about 88 mm. It is a very variable species and a great number of subspecies and forms have been described. Most of these are now considered synonyms. The larvae feed on Inga vera, Inga ruiziana and Andira inermis.
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Infraspecies

Prepona laertes agathus
Prepona laertes demodice
Prepona laertes guaraunos
Prepona laertes ikarios
Prepona laertes laertes
Prepona laertes octavia
Prepona laertes pallantias
Prepona laertes penelope
Prepona laertes victrix

Prey / Diet

Inga edulis (icecreambean)[1]
Inga ingoides (icecream bean)[1]
Inga vera (river koko)[1]
Machaerium acutifolium (Sebastiao-de-arruda)[1]
Melicoccus bijugatus (Spanish lime)[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