Opsiphanes invirae

Botanical Gardens of Brasilia - DF, Brazil.

 

Feeding on feces of a maned wolf.

 

Note on this: the maned wolf uses scent markings (urine and feces) to delimit territory, which it patrols during the night to avoid invaders.

 

Kingdom: Animalia

Phylum: Arthropoda

Class: Insecta

Order: Lepidoptera

Superfamily: Papilionoidea

Family: Nymphalidae

Subfamily: Morphinae

Tribe: Brassolini

Subtribe: Brassolina

Genus: Opsiphanes Doubleday, [1849]

Species: O. invirae (Hübner, [1808])

Binomial name: Opsiphanes invirae

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