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Curetis acuta (Angled Sunbeam)

Wikipedia Abstract

The Angled Sunbeam Curetis acuta is a species of butterfly belong to the lycaenid family. It is found in Asia.
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Infraspecies

Curetis acuta acuta
Curetis acuta brunnea
Curetis acuta formosana
Curetis acuta japonica
Curetis acuta naga
Curetis acuta paracuta
Curetis acuta tsushimana

Attributes

Wing Span [1]  1.575 inches (.04 m)

Prey / Diet

Pueraria montana (Kudzu vine)[2]

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Wilts, B. D., Pirih, P., Arikawa, K., & Stavenga, D. G. (2013). Shiny wing scales cause spec (tac) ular camouflage of the angled sunbeam butterfly, Curetis acuta. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 109(2), 279-289.
♦ 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