Biology:Auca coctei

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Short description: Species of butterfly

Auca coctei
Auca coctei.JPG
Scientific classification edit
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Nymphalidae
Genus: Auca
Species:
A. coctei
Binomial name
Auca coctei
(Guérin-Méneville, [1838])
Synonyms
  • Satyrus coctei Guérin-Méneville, [1838]
  • Satyrus tragiscus Reed, 1877 (nomen nudum)
  • Epinephele coctei var. confusa Köhler, 1935
  • Epinephele nycteropus andensis Köhler, 1939

Auca coctei is a butterfly of the family Nymphalidae. It is found in Chile and Argentina .[1]

The larvae feed on various species of bunch grass.[2]

References

  1. "Auca Hayward, 1953" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
  2. Sourakov, A.; Zakharov, E. (2011). ""Darwin's butterflies"? DNA barcoding and the radiation of the endemic Caribbean butterfly genus Calisto (Lepidoptera, Nymphalidae, Satyrinae)". Comparative Cytogenetics 5 (3): 191–210. doi:10.3897/CompCytogen.v5i3.1730. PMID 24260629. 


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