''Prepona pylene'', the narrow-banded shoemaker, is a

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 was described by

William Chapman Hewitson William Chapman Hewitson (9 January 1806, in Newcastle upon Tyne – 28 May 1878, in Oatlands Park, Surrey) was a British naturalist. A wealthy collector, Hewitson was particularly devoted to Coleoptera (beetles) and Lepidoptera (butterflies ...

in 1853. It is found throughout the Amazonian region from

Honduras Honduras, officially the Republic of Honduras, is a country in Central America. The republic of Honduras is bordered to the west by Guatemala, to the southwest by El Salvador, to the southeast by Nicaragua, to the south by the Pacific Oce ...

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. The habitat consists of rainforests at altitudes between 400 and 1,000 meters.''Prepona pylene'' in learnaboutbutterflies
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Subspecies

*''Prepona pylene pylene'' (Brazil: Rio de Janeiro, Santa Catarina, Espírito Santo, Rio Grande do Sul) *''Prepona pylene bahiana'' Fruhstorfer, 1897 (Brazil: Bahia) *''Prepona pylene eugenes'' Bates, 1865 (Bolivia, Ecuador, Colombia, Brazil: Pará) *''Prepona pylene gnorima'' Bates, 1865 (Honduras to Colombia) *''Prepona pylene jordani'' Fruhstorfer, 1905 (Ecuador) *''Prepona pylene laertides'' Staudinger, 1898 (Bolivia, Paraguay, Brazil: Minas Gerais) *''Prepona pylene philetas'' Fruhstorfer, 1904 (Honduras)

References

Butterflies described in 1853 Charaxinae Fauna of Brazil Nymphalidae of South America {{Charaxinae-stub