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Adelotypa

Penz, Carla M.;Devries, Philip J.

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Adelotypa is a genus of butterflies in the family Riodinidae. They are found in South America.

Species

GENUS

  1. KingdomAnimalia
  2. PhylumArthropoda
  3. ClassInsecta
  4. OrderLepidoptera
  5. FamilyRiodinidae

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Museum specimens

Specimen records
36
Family
Riodinidae
Collections
FESZ-UNAM, RBINS-SCIENTIFIC HERITAGE, YPM
Recorded in
Mexico, France, Costa Rica, Brazil, French Guiana

Wikidata facts

Instance of
taxon
Parent taxon
Riodinidae
Image
Illustrations of new species of exotic butterflies Lemonias IV.jpg
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taxon name
Adelotypa
taxon rank
genus
Commons category
Adelotypa
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Encyclopedic overview

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Adelotypa is a genus of butterflies in the family Riodinidae. They are found in South America.

The type species of the genus is Adelotypa xanthobrunnea Warren, 1895, which was mistakenly described as a Geometridae species.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Adelotypa” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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