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Fountainea

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Fountainea

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Fountainea is a genus of Neotropical leaf butterflies. Their wing undersides usually mimic dead leaves.

Species

GENUS

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

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Museum specimens

Specimen records
735
With media
74
Family
Nymphalidae
Collections
FLMNH-UF, MHNCA, MZFC-FC-UNAM, SEMAHN
Recorded in
Mexico

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Fountainea is a genus of Neotropical leaf butterflies. Their wing undersides usually mimic dead leaves.

This genus honours Margaret Fountaine, a renowned entomologist.

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

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