Panacea prola
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]
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Nymphalidae |
| Genus: | Panacea |
| Species: | P. prola |
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The wingspan is 65–75 mm. The underside of the hindwings is bright red without markings.
Subspecies
- 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
- Panacea at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
- Parque Nacional Sangay (Ecuador) : Panacea-prola Doubleday 1848
- Butterflies of Amazonia - Panacea prola
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