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Fountainea
Sign in to saveFountainea is a genus of Neotropical leaf butterflies. Their wing undersides usually mimic dead leaves.
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 735
- With media
- 74
- Family
- Nymphalidae
- Collections
- FLMNH-UF, MHNCA, MZFC-FC-UNAM, SEMAHN
- Recorded in
- Mexico
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- taxon
- Parent taxon
- Anaeini
- Named after
- Margaret Fountaine
- Image
- Fountainea nobilis.JPG
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- Fountainea
- taxon rank
- genus
- topic's main category
- Category:Fountainea
- Commons category
- Fountainea
- taxon common name
- Leafwings
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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.