Biology:Adelpha cocala

Short description: Species of butterfly

Adelpha cocala
In Pieter Cramer and Caspar Stoll's Uitlandsche Kapellen
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Nymphalidae
Genus:	Adelpha
Species:	A. cocala
Binomial name
Adelpha cocala (Cramer, 1779)
Synonyms
Papilio cocala Cramer, [1779] C. & R. Felder, 1862 Fruhstorfer, 1913 Fruhstorfer, 1915 Adelpha fufia Adelpha cocala lorzina Fruhstorfer, 1913 Adelpha urracina Fruhstorfer, 1915 Fruhstorfer, 1915 Adelpha cocala riola ab. chlide Heterochroa lorzae d'Almeida, 1931 Heterochroa urraca Fruhstorfer, 1913 Boisduval, 1870 Adelpha cocalina Adelpha saparua Fruhstorfer, 1913 Adelpha cocala fufina Adelpha cocalina

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.

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 cocala at UniProt

Wikidata ☰ Q2824247 entry