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Oenomaus mancha

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Oenomaus mancha
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Male
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Lycaenidae
Genus: Oenomaus
Species:
O. mancha
Binomial name
Oenomaus mancha
Busby & Faynel, 2012

Oenomaus mancha is a species of butterfly of the family Lycaenidae. It occurs widely in wet forest in eastern Ecuador at elevations ranging from 400 to 1,100 meters.[1]

The length of the forewings is 20.8 mm for males and 19.4 mm for females. Adult males and females are attracted to traps baited with rotting fish.

Etymology

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The name of the species is derived from the Spanish word mancha (meaning spot) and refers to the very distinctive, elongated black spot in ventral hindwing cell Sc+R1-Rs.

References

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  1. ^ Faynel, C.; Busby, R. C.; Robbins, R. (2012). "Review of the species level taxonomy of the neotropical butterfly genus Oenomaus (Lycaenidae, Theclinae, Eumaeini)". ZooKeys (222): 11–45. Bibcode:2012ZooK..222...11F. doi:10.3897/zookeys.222.3375. PMC 3459029. PMID 23129985. This article incorporates text available under the CC BY 4.0 license.