Panara (butterfly)

Panara
	Panara in Jacob Hübner, [1821] Sammlung exotischer Schmetterlinge
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Riodinidae
Subfamily:	Riodininae
Genus:	Panara; Doubleday, 1847

Panara is a genus in the butterfly family Riodinidae present in the Neotropical realm.

The species in this genus closely resemble each other. They are black with an orange oblique band of the forewing (also found in Isapis and many other Riodinidae Mesene, Aricoris, Chamaelimnas, Melanis etc).They are rather strongly built and exceptionally good flyers and also sometimes fly about in day-time, the flight being somewhat like that of moths, so that they are difficult to distinguish from quite a number of similarly coloured species of Geometridae and Arctiidae found at the same places. In the hindwing the cell is possibly still shorter than in most of the other Eryrinidae; on the forewing the first subcostal vein branches off just before the cell-end, the second directly behind it. They are not so local as the other Riodinidae.[1]

Species

Panara aureizona Butler, 1874 present in Brazil
Panara jarbas (Drury, 1782) present in Brazil
Panara ovifera Seitz, 1913 present in Brazil
Panara soana Hewitson, 1875 present in Brazil
Panara phereclus (Linnaeus, 1758); present in French Guiana, Guyana, Bolivia, Brazil and Peru.

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References

Seitz, A., 1916. Family:Erycinidae. In A. Seitz (editor), Macrolepidoptera of the world,vol. 5: 617–738. Stuttgart: Alfred Kernen. also available as pdf
Panara at funet

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[1] Seitz, A., 1916. Family:Erycinidae. In A. Seitz (editor), Macrolepidoptera of the world,vol. 5: 617–738. Stuttgart: Alfred Kernen. also available as pdf

[2] Panara at funet