Amarynthis

Amarynthis
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Clade:	Pancrustacea
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Riodinidae
Tribe:	Riodinini
Genus:	Amarynthis; Hübner, 1819
Species:	A. meneria
Binomial name
	Amarynthis meneria; (Cramer, 1776)
Synonyms
	Papilio meneria Cramer, 1776; Papilio micalia Cramer, 1776; Hesperia maecenas Fabricius, 1793 (preocc. Fabricius, 1793); Hesperia dimas Fabricius, 1796; Amarynthis meneria f. conflata Stichel, 1910; Amarynthis meneria stenogramma Stichel, 1910; Amarynthis coccitincta Seitz, 1913; Amarynthis superior Seitz, 1913;

Amarynthis is a monotypic genus of butterflies in the family Riodinidae. Its sole species, Amarynthis meneria, the meneria metalmark, is a common species in lowland rainforests east of the Andes from Venezuela, Suriname and Guyana, south through the Brazilian Amazon to Peru and northern Argentina.

The wings are very delicate; the veins deviate from those of Amblygonia only by the 3rd subcostal vein not rising immediately before the cell-end, but immediately behind it. It is black with a narrow red transverse band and sparse light, small dots:in the cell of the forewing a red cuneiform streak, behind it a small red spot.^[1]

References

↑ A. Seitz (editor), Macrolepidoptera of the World, vol. 5: 333–356. Stuttgart: Alfred Kernen This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain..

External links

Amarynthis meneria at the Tree of Life Web Project
Species info

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[1] A. Seitz (editor), Macrolepidoptera of the World, vol. 5: 333–356. Stuttgart: Alfred Kernen This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain..

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