Species of butterfly
Malaveria alcinoe
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Scientific classification
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Domain:
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Eukaryota
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Kingdom:
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Animalia
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Phylum:
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Arthropoda
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Class:
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Insecta
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Order:
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Lepidoptera
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Family:
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Nymphalidae
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Genus:
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Malaveria Viloria & Benmesbah, 2021
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Species:
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M. alcinoe
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Binomial name
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Malaveria alcinoe
(C. & R. Felder, 1867)
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Synonyms
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- Magneuptychia alcinoe (C. Felder & R. Felder, 1867)
- Neonympha alcinoe C. & R. Felder, 1867
- Euptychia benedicta Butler, 1877
- Euptychia pamela Hayward, 1957
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Malaveria alcinoe, the Alcinoe satyr, is a species of butterfly of the family Nymphalidae.[1] It is found from Costa Rica to Colombia, Ecuador, Bolivia and Venezuela.
The wingspan is about 38 mm.[2]
The larvae feed on grasses.[3]
- ^ Marianne Espeland; Shinichi Nakahara; Thamara Zacca; Eduardo P. Barbosa; Blanca Huertas; et al. (2023). "Combining target enrichment and Sanger sequencing data to clarify the systematics of the diverse Neotropical butterfly subtribe Euptychiina (Nymphalidae, Satyrinae)". Systematic Entomology: 1–73. doi:10.1111/syen.12590. ISSN 1365-3113.
- ^ Parque Nacional Sangay
- ^ "Magneuptychia Forster, 1964" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms