Enantia melite

Enantia melite
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Clade:	Pancrustacea
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Pieridae
Genus:	Enantia
Species:	E. melite
Binomial name
	Enantia melite; (Linnaeus, 1763)
Synonyms
	Papilio melite Linnaeus, 1763; Leptalis melite; Dismorphia melite; Papilio licinia Cramer, [1777]; Papilio phronima Fabricius, 1793; Dismorphia colon Röber, 1909; Phalaena heteroclita Linnaeus, 1763 (nom. dub.); Dismorphia theugenis ab. immaculata Zischka, 1951; Dismorphia theugenis ab. flavimaculata Zischka, 1951; Dismorphia theugenis ab. continuescens Zischka, 1951; Dismorphia melite defigurata Martin, [1923] (nom. nud.); Dismorphia theugenis ab. juncta Dufrane, 1947; Enantia theugenis zischkai Baumann & Reissinger, 1969;

Enantia melite is a species of butterfly that is found from Central America to the Amazon Basin.^[1] It has a wingspan of 48–52 millimetres (1.9–2.0 in), and is very variable.^[1] It lives in cloud forest and transitional forest, at altitudes of 400–1,800 metres (1,300–5,900 ft).^[2]

Subspecies

E. m. melite (Surinam)
E. m. theugenis (Doubleday, 1848) (Bolivia, Peru)
E. m. linealis (Prüffer, 1922) (Peru)
E. m. vilma Lamas, 2004 (Brazil: Rondônia)

Gallery

E. m. melite male
E. m. melite female
E. m. theugenis

References

1 2 Jean-Claude Petit. "Enantia melite Linnaeus, 1763". Inventory of the Butterflies of Sangay National Park (Ecuador). Retrieved February 8, 2011.
↑ "Melite Mimic White. Enantia melite Linnaeus, 1763". Butterflies of the Andes. Archived from the original on May 5, 2011. Retrieved February 8, 2011.

External links

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[Sangay-1] 1 2 Jean-Claude Petit. "Enantia melite Linnaeus, 1763". Inventory of the Butterflies of Sangay National Park (Ecuador). Retrieved February 8, 2011.

[2] "Melite Mimic White. Enantia melite Linnaeus, 1763". Butterflies of the Andes. Archived from the original on May 5, 2011. Retrieved February 8, 2011.

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