Agrias amydon

Agrias amydon
	A. a. frontina
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Nymphalidae
Genus:	Agrias
Species:	A. amydon
Binomial name
	Agrias amydon; Hewitson, [1854]
Synonyms
	Agrias phalcidon Hewitson, 1855; Agrias pericles Bates, 1860; Agrias anaxagoras Staudinger, 1886; Agrias eleonora Fruhstorfer, 1895; Agrias mapiri Fassl, 1913;

Agrias amydon, the Amydon agrias or white-spotted agrias, is a butterfly of the family Nymphalidae. It is found in Mexico, Central America, and South America.

The larvae feed on Erythroxylum species including E. havanense.

Subspecies

A. a. amydon (Colombia)
A. a. phalcidon (Brazil)
A. a. zenodorus (Ecuador, northern Peru)
A. a. amydonius (Peru (Loreto, Iquitos), Brazil (Amazonas), Colombia)
A. a. boliviensis (Bolivia (Yungas), Peru)
A. a. bogotana (western Venezuela to north-eastern Colombia)
A. a. frontina (north-western Ecuador (Rio Mira), western Colombia)
A. a. ferdinandi (Brazil (Mato Grosso, Minas Gerais, Goiás, Bahia, Pernambuco), Bolivia)
A. a. aurantiaca (Brazil (Pará, Amazonas), Surinam, south-western Venezuela)
A. a. aristoxenus (Peru, Bolivia)
A. a. excelsior (Brazil (Amazonas))
A. a. uniformis (Brazil (Roraima), southern Venezuela)
A. a. rubella (Brazil (Amazonas))
A. a. oaxacata (Mexico (Oaxaca))
A. a. smalli (Panama)
A. a. philatelica (Mexico (Chiapas), Costa Rica)
A. a. lacandona (Mexico)

There is also an undescribed subspecies from Venezuela.

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