Pareuptychia ocirrhoe

Pareuptychia ocirrhoe, the two-banded satyr or banded white ringlet, is a species of butterfly of the family Nymphalidae. It is found from Mexico to the Guyanas, Paraguay and northern Argentina. The habitat consists of forests.

Pareuptychia ocirrhoe
in Panama
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Nymphalidae
Genus: Pareuptychia
Species:
P. ocirrhoe
Binomial name
Pareuptychia ocirrhoe
(Fabricius, 1776)[1]
Synonyms
  • Papilio ocirrhoe Fabricius, 1776
  • Euptychia ocirrhoe
  • Euptychia ocirrhoe interjecta d'Almeida, 1952
  • Euptychia hesione hesione f. emarginata Bryk, 1953
  • Pareuptychia bivari Anken, 1994

The wingspan is about 37 mm.[2]

The larvae feed on Eleusine species.[3]

Subspecies
  • Pareuptychia ocirrhoe ocirrhoe (Panama, Surinam)
  • Pareuptychia ocirrhoe interjecta (d'Almeida, 1952) (Brazil: Rio de Janeiro, Bahia and Mato Grosso do Sul)

References
  1. "Pareuptychia Forster, 1964" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
  2. Butterflies Of Sangay National Park (Ecuador)
  3. Butterflies of the Amazon and Andes
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