''Ceratinia tutia'', the tutia clearwing, is a species of

butterfly Butterflies are insects in the macrolepidopteran clade Rhopalocera from the Order (biology), order Lepidoptera, which also includes moths. Adult butterflies have large, often brightly coloured wings, and conspicuous, fluttering flight. The ...

of the family

Nymphalidae The Nymphalidae are the largest family of butterflies, with more than 6,000 species distributed throughout most of the world. Belonging to the superfamily Papilionoidea, they are usually medium-sized to large butterflies. Most species have a red ...

. It is found from southern

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 ...

Brazil Brazil ( pt, Brasil; ), officially the Federative Republic of Brazil (Portuguese: ), is the largest country in both South America and Latin America. At and with over 217 million people, Brazil is the world's fifth-largest country by area ...

. The

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is about 52 mm. It is a highly variable species.Butterflies of Sangay National Park
/ref> The larvae of subspecies ''Ceratinia tutia dorilla'' have been recorded feeding on ''

Solanum ''Solanum'' is a large and diverse genus of flowering plants, which include three food crops of high economic importance: the potato, the tomato and the eggplant (aubergine, brinjal). It is the largest genus in the nightshade family Solanaceae ...

'' species, including '' S. antillarum''.

Subspecies

* ''Ceratinia tutia tutia'';

Venezuela Venezuela (; ), officially the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela ( es, link=no, República Bolivariana de Venezuela), is a country on the northern coast of South America, consisting of a continental landmass and many islands and islets in th ...

* ''Ceratinia tutia azarina'' (Weymer, 1899);

Ecuador Ecuador ( ; ; Quechua: ''Ikwayur''; Shuar: ''Ecuador'' or ''Ekuatur''), officially the Republic of Ecuador ( es, República del Ecuador, which literally translates as "Republic of the Equator"; Quechua: ''Ikwadur Ripuwlika''; Shuar: ''Eku ...

and

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* ''Ceratinia tutia callichroma'' (Staudinger, 1885); Ecuador * ''Ceratinia tutia chanchamaya'' (Haensch, 1905); Peru * ''Ceratinia tutia dorilla'' (Bates, 1864);

Nicaragua Nicaragua (; ), officially the Republic of Nicaragua (), is the largest country in Central America, bordered by Honduras to the north, the Caribbean to the east, Costa Rica to the south, and the Pacific Ocean to the west. Managua is the cou ...

and Venezuela * ''Ceratinia tutia fuscens'' (Haensch, 1905);

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* ''Ceratinia tutia hopfferi'' (Weymer, 1899); Peru * ''Ceratinia tutia poecila'' (Bates, 1862); Ecuador and

Colombia Colombia (, ; ), officially the Republic of Colombia, is a country in South America with insular regions in North America—near Nicaragua's Caribbean coast—as well as in the Pacific Ocean. The Colombian mainland is bordered by the Car ...

* ''Ceratinia tutia poeciloides'' (Riley, 1919);

* ''Ceratinia tutia porrecta'' (Haensch, 1905); Bolivia * ''Ceratinia tutia radiosa'' (Haensch, 1903); Ecuador * ''Ceratinia tutia robusta'' (Haensch, 1905); Bolivia * ''Ceratinia tutia selenides'' (Weymer, 1899); Peru * ''Ceratinia tutia singularis'' (Rebel, 1902); Ecuador * ''Ceratinia tutia tosca'' (Schaus, 1902); Colombia * ''Ceratinia tutia transversa'' (Hering, 1925); Colombia

References

Butterflies described in 1852 Ithomiini Fauna of Brazil Nymphalidae of South America {{Danainae-stub