Reference photo of Necyria duellona, photographed alive

Reference photo

Photo: (c) Roger Rittmaster, some rights reserved (CC BY) · iNaturalist · CC BY 4.0 (cropped and resized). Not the specimen in Lucy’s drawer.

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Necyria duellona

Westwood, 1851

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Your framed specimen is a different individual of the same species, chosen and mounted by Lucy.

  • Riodinidae
  • Butterfly
Catalog label
Family
Riodinidae
Subfamily
Riodininae
Tribe
Riodinini
Where it lives
Ecuador

From the catalog of Lucy Garcia Salik, PhD. A mounted specimen from a licensed supplier.

Research notes

From published sources, not from Lucy’s catalog. Each note lists where it came from.

Where it lives

The sources describe this butterfly by subspecies. One subspecies, beltiana, is recorded from Nicaragua south to Panama, and one source notes that it is the only form of the species found in Central America. Neither source makes any claim about Texas or the United States.

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