Biology:Adelpha cocala
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Short description: Species of butterfly
Adelpha cocala | |
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In Pieter Cramer and Caspar Stoll's Uitlandsche Kapellen | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Family: | Nymphalidae |
Genus: | Adelpha |
Species: | A. cocala
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Binomial name | |
Adelpha cocala (Cramer, 1779)[1]
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Adelpha cocala, the cocala sister or orange-washed sister, is a butterfly of the family Nymphalidae. It was described by Pieter Cramer in 1779. It is found from Honduras to Panama, Guatemala, Venezuela, Colombia, Suriname, Peru, Bolivia and Brazil .
The wingspan is about 50 mm.[2]
The larvae feed on Pentagonia, Psychotria, Calycophyllum, Chomelia, Uncaria and Genipa species.
Subspecies
- Adelpha cocala cocala (Venezuela, Colombia, Surinam, Peru, Bolivia, Brazil: Mato Grosso)
- Adelpha cocala caninia Fruhstorfer, 1915 (Brazil: Santa Catarina, São Paulo)
- Adelpha cocala didia Fruhstorfer, 1915 (Brazil: Espírito Santo, Rio de Janeiro)
- Adelpha cocala lorzae (Boisduval, 1870) (Honduras to Panama, Guatemala, Colombia, Ecuador)
- Adelpha cocala orellanae Neild, 1996 (Venezuela)
- Adelpha cocala riola Fruhstorfer, 1915 (Brazil)
References
- ↑ "Adelpha Hübner, [1819]" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
- ↑ Parque Nacional Sangay (Ecuador)
- Adelpha cocala at UniProt
Wikidata ☰ Q2824247 entry
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