Panacea prola, the prola beauty or red flasher, is a species of butterfly of the family Nymphalidae. It is found from Costa Rica[2] to southern Brazil, but is most common in the foothills of the eastern Peruvian Andes.[3]
Panacea prola | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Family: | Nymphalidae |
Genus: | Panacea |
Species: | P. prola
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Binomial name | |
Panacea prola | |
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The wingspan is 65–75 mm. The underside of the hindwings is bright red without markings.
Subspecies
edit- Panacea prola prola (Colombia, Venezuela)
- Panacea prola zaraja Fruhstorfer, 1912 (Venezuela)
- Panacea prola amazonica Fruhstorfer, 1915 (Upper Amazon, Peru, Ecuador)
- Panacea prola prolifica Fruhstorfer, 1915 (Ecuador)
References
edit- ^ Panacea at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
- ^ Parque Nacional Sangay (Ecuador) : Panacea-prola Doubleday 1848
- ^ Butterflies of Amazonia - Panacea prola