Aeria elara elarina

Fazenda Grotão - DF, Brazil.

 

Feeding on flowers of Stachytarpheta cayennensis (Rich.) Vahl

 

Aeria is a genus of clearwing (ithomiine) butterflies, named by Jacob Hübner in 1816. Species can be found in the Neotropical region.

 

Kingdom: Animalia

Phylum: Arthropoda

Class: Insecta

Order: Lepidoptera

Superfamily: Papilionoidea

Family: Nymphalidae

Subfamily: Danainae

Tribe: Ithomiini

Subtribe: Tithoreina

Genus: Aeria Hübner, 1816

Species: A. elara (Hewitson, 1855)

Subspecies: A. e. elarina (Oberthür, 1879)

Scientific name: Aeria elara elarina

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