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Archaeoprepona
''Archaeoprepona'' is a genus of Neotropical charaxine butterflies in the family Nymphalidae, native to Mexico, Central America, northern South America, and the Caribbean. The underside of their wings is pale brownish, while the upperside is dark with a distinct bright blue band. Taxonomy Most taxa were described before Hans Fruhstorfer coined the genus ''Archaeoprepona'' in 1916, and were therefore originally placed in other genera. This includes the type species of the genus, ''Archaeoprepona demophon'', first described as ''Papilio demophon'' by Carl Linnaeus. Even after the description of the genus ''Archaeoprepona'', the members have commonly been included in ''Prepona'' instead. Species in the genus ''Archaeoprepona'':"''Archaeoprepona'' Fruhstorfer, 1915 ...
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Archaeoprepona Camilla
''Archaeoprepona'' is a genus of Neotropical charaxine butterflies in the family Nymphalidae, native to Mexico, Central America, northern South America, and the Caribbean. The underside of their wings is pale brownish, while the upperside is dark with a distinct bright blue band. Taxonomy Most taxa were described before Hans Fruhstorfer coined the genus ''Archaeoprepona'' in 1916, and were therefore originally placed in other genera. This includes the type species of the genus, ''Archaeoprepona demophon'', first described as ''Papilio demophon'' by Carl Linnaeus. Even after the description of the genus ''Archaeoprepona'', the members have commonly been included in ''Prepona'' instead. Species in the genus ''Archaeoprepona'':"''Archaeoprepona'' Fruhstorfer, 1915 ...
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Archaeoprepona Phaedra
''Archaeoprepona'' is a genus of Neotropical charaxine butterflies in the family Nymphalidae, native to Mexico, Central America, northern South America, and the Caribbean. The underside of their wings is pale brownish, while the upperside is dark with a distinct bright blue band. Taxonomy Most taxa were described before Hans Fruhstorfer coined the genus ''Archaeoprepona'' in 1916, and were therefore originally placed in other genera. This includes the type species of the genus, ''Archaeoprepona demophon'', first described as ''Papilio demophon'' by Carl Linnaeus. Even after the description of the genus ''Archaeoprepona'', the members have commonly been included in ''Prepona'' instead. Species in the genus ''Archaeoprepona'':"''Archaeoprepona'' Fruhstorfer, 1915 ...
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Archaeoprepona Licomedes
''Archaeoprepona'' is a genus of Neotropical charaxine butterflies in the family Nymphalidae, native to Mexico, Central America, northern South America, and the Caribbean. The underside of their wings is pale brownish, while the upperside is dark with a distinct bright blue band. Taxonomy Most taxa were described before Hans Fruhstorfer coined the genus ''Archaeoprepona'' in 1916, and were therefore originally placed in other genera. This includes the type species of the genus, ''Archaeoprepona demophon'', first described as ''Papilio demophon'' by Carl Linnaeus. Even after the description of the genus ''Archaeoprepona'', the members have commonly been included in ''Prepona'' instead. Species in the genus ''Archaeoprepona'':"''Archaeoprepona'' Fruhstorfer, 1915 ...
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Archaeoprepona Demophoon
''Archaeoprepona'' is a genus of Neotropical charaxine butterflies in the family Nymphalidae, native to Mexico, Central America, northern South America, and the Caribbean. The underside of their wings is pale brownish, while the upperside is dark with a distinct bright blue band. Taxonomy Most taxa were described before Hans Fruhstorfer coined the genus ''Archaeoprepona'' in 1916, and were therefore originally placed in other genera. This includes the type species of the genus, ''Archaeoprepona demophon'', first described as ''Papilio demophon'' by Carl Linnaeus. Even after the description of the genus ''Archaeoprepona'', the members have commonly been included in ''Prepona'' instead. Species in the genus ''Archaeoprepona'':"''Archaeoprepona'' Fruhstorfer, 1915 ...
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Archaeoprepona Chalciope
''Archaeoprepona'' is a genus of Neotropical charaxine butterflies in the family Nymphalidae, native to Mexico, Central America, northern South America, and the Caribbean. The underside of their wings is pale brownish, while the upperside is dark with a distinct bright blue band. Taxonomy Most taxa were described before Hans Fruhstorfer coined the genus ''Archaeoprepona'' in 1916, and were therefore originally placed in other genera. This includes the type species of the genus, ''Archaeoprepona demophon'', first described as ''Papilio demophon'' by Carl Linnaeus. Even after the description of the genus ''Archaeoprepona'', the members have commonly been included in ''Prepona'' instead. Species in the genus ''Archaeoprepona'':"''Archaeoprepona'' Fruhstorfer, 1915 ...
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Archaeoprepona Demophon
''Archaeoprepona demophon'', the one-spotted prepona, banded king shoemaker, or demophon shoemaker
Butterflies of the Amazon and the Andes is a belonging to the family .


Description

The reaches about . The uppersides of the wings are black, with bright pale blue transverse bands. The undersides are pale brown with a clearer band in the middle of the hindwings and several dark small dots on the margins.


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Archaeoprepona Amphimachus
''Archaeoprepona amphimachus'', the white-spotted prepona, is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It is found from Mexico to Bolivia. It is found in rainforests and humid deciduous forests at altitudes between sea level and about 1,500 meters. Some authors consider ''Archaeoprepona amphimachus'' to be a subspecies of '' Archaeoprepona meander''. The wingspan The wingspan (or just span) of a bird or an airplane is the distance from one wingtip to the other wingtip. For example, the Boeing 777–200 has a wingspan of , and a wandering albatross (''Diomedea exulans'') caught in 1965 had a wingspan o ... is 50–58 mm for ssp. ''amphiktion''. Adults feed at sap runs and also attend carrion, dung and rotting fruit on the forest floor. The prepona butterfly is the fastest butterfly in the forest. It can fly from 30–50 mph. Subspecies *''Archaeoprepona amphimachus amphimachus'' *''Archaeoprepona amphimachus pseudmeander'' (Brazil) *''Archaeoprepona amphimachus ...
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Archaeoprepona Meander
''Archaeoprepona meander'', the Meander prepona, is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It is found from Mexico Mexico (Spanish: México), officially the United Mexican States, is a country in the southern portion of North America. It is bordered to the north by the United States; to the south and west by the Pacific Ocean; to the southeast by Guatema ... to the Amazon basin. Subspecies *''Archaeoprepona meander meander'' (Suriname) *''Archaeoprepona meander megabates'' (Peru, Bolivia, Panama, Colombia) three-toned prepona *''Archaeoprepona meander phoebus'' (Honduras, Mexico) *''Archaeoprepona meander castorina'' (Brazil) External linksButterflies of America Charaxinae Fauna of Brazil Nymphalidae of South America Butterflies described in 1775 Taxa named by Pieter Cramer {{Charaxinae-stub ...
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Prepona
''Prepona'' is a genus of Neotropical charaxine butterflies in the family Nymphalidae. They are strong fliers in tropical forests where they feed on fermenting fruits and animal dung. The underside of the wings is pale greyish or brownish, while the upperside is dark with distinct iridescent blue markings. A few species also have orange markings on the upperside of the wings. They are popular among butterfly collectors. '' Prepona deiphile'' is considered a threatened species in Minas Gerais state, Brazil. Description "They are very robust insects, measuring four inches across the wings, which are broad and dentated, with the tip of the fore-wings much produced, but not falcate, the hind-margin being oblique and then nearly straight below; near the inner-margin of the hind-wings of the males stands a yellow tuft of stiff hair ( androconial tuft), as in ''Agrias''. The wings are black, and are generally crossed by a broad blue or greenish-blue band, often interrupted below the ...
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Noreppa
''Archaeoprepona chromus'' is a species of Neotropical charaxine butterflies in the family Nymphalidae, native to South America. Taxonomy The following subspecies are recognised: *''Archaeoprepona chromus chromus'' (Guérin-Ménéville, 1844) (Colombia, Bolivia, Venezuela, Peru, Argentina) *''Archaeoprepona chromus priene'' (Hewitson, 1869) (Colombia) Description The wingspan is about 85 mm. Distribution and habitat Montane forest at 1500 to 2000 metres in the Neotropical realm The Neotropical realm is one of the eight biogeographic realms constituting Earth's land surface. Physically, it includes the tropical terrestrial ecoregions of the Americas and the entire South American temperate zone. Definition In biogeo .... References *Rydon, AHB. 1971. The systematics of the Charaxidae (Lepidoptera: Nymphaloidea). ''Entomologist's Record'' 83: 219-233, 283-287, 310-316, 336-341, 384-388, 6 figs., 4 plates. Charaxinae Nymphalidae of South America Monotypic b ...
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Agrias
''Agrias'' is a genus of Neotropical charaxine nymphalid butterflies found in South and Central America. The German lepidopterist Hans Fruhstorfer wrote: "In this magnificent tropical genus, upon which nature seems to have showered all her abundance of most brilliant colours, and which is, therefore, justly called the 'princely race' of the Nymphalidae, we are most surprised to meet a repetition of two genera of not less abundant colours: the '' Callithea'' and ''Catagramma'', except that the ''Agrias'' species greatly excel the latter in size and magnificent colours, and only the males of this genus bear a sexual distinction in the shape of a hair-brush on the hindwings. Some of them, like the famous '' A. sardanapalus'', having been first discovered by Bates in the Amazon Valley, are of an absolutely charming beauty, and the contrast of its purple-red forewings beaming through a blue lustre hued over them as if in a violet purple gloss, with the brilliantly sapphire-blue hindw ...
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Anaeomorpha
''Anaeomorpha'' is a monotypic genus of butterflies in the subfamily Charaxinae. Species There is one species, ''Anaeomorpha splendida'', and two subspecies: *''Anaeomorpha splendida splendida'' (Peru, Ecuador, Colombia) *''Anaeomorpha splendida esmeralda'' Attal & Büche, 2008 (southern Peru) Distribution ''Anaeomorpha splendida'' is found in Peru, Ecuador and Colombia. Biogeographic realm Neotropical realm Systematics Clade showing phylogenetics In biology, phylogenetics (; from Greek φυλή/ φῦλον [] "tribe, clan, race", and wikt:γενετικός, γενετικός [] "origin, source, birth") is the study of the evolutionary history and relationships among or within groups ... of ''Anaeomorpha''. External links"''Anaeomorpha'' Rothschild, 1894"at Markku Savela's ''Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms'' Charaxinae Nymphalidae of South America Monotypic butterfly genera Taxa named by Walter Rothschild Butterflies described in 1894 Nymphalidae g ...
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