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Riodinidae Mesene exhibit many color variations and combinations and vary by geographic region. The males have triangular, pointed, brightly coloured forewings and small ellipsoidal hindwings. In the wing veins the species exhibit great conformity, the second subcostal vein, the upper median vein in
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the forewing as well as in the hindwing rise before the cell-end. They rest well hidden on the under surface of leaves but fly when disturbed somewhat like
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for about 10 to 20 metres always keeping in the middle of the forest roads, in order to drop again into another bush. The larvae are
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present in French Guiana, Guyana, Suriname, Ecuador, Venezuela, Guatemala and Peru
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present in Mexico, Colombia, French Guiana, Guyana, Suriname, Brazil and Peru
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to the leaf of which also the small greenish-yellow pupa is spun.
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present in French Guiana, Guyana, Suriname, Venezuela and Brazil
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present in French Guiana, Guyana, Suriname and Brazil
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224:, fluffily haired; that of
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815:Taxa described in 1847
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445:Schaus, 1913 present
305:present in Ecuador,
220:like, somewhat like
16:Genus of butterflies
542:present in Colombia
385:present in Colombia
379:Mesene ingrumaensis
374:present in Colombia
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466:Mesene nola
407:present in
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320:present in
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287:present in
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265:present in
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178:preoccupied
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119:Subfamily:
100:Lepidoptera
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789:Categories
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476:and Brazil
326:Costa Rica
309:and Brazil
226:M. phareus
214:geometrids
202:Riodinidae
124:Riodininae
112:Riodinidae
76:Arthropoda
678:ButMoth:
588:sur funet
409:Guatemala
289:Venezuela
144:Doubleday
59:Kingdom:
754:LepIndex
642:Q1765512
636:Wikidata
307:Colombia
275:Suriname
222:woodlice
218:lycaenid
171:Agathina
153:Synonyms
107:Family:
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64:Animalia
45:pharaeus
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720:1935999
681:17650.0
580:Sources
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423:Bolivia
253:Ecuador
238:Species
131:Genus:
95:Order:
88:Insecta
83:Class:
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759:191797
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657:Mesene
627:Mesene
603:at eol
601:Mesene
586:Mesene
449:Panama
322:Mexico
293:Brazil
271:Guyana
193:Mesene
165:, 1807
162:Emesis
146:, 1847
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707:20750
694:92FCJ
671:24160
198:genus
196:is a
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715:GBIF
666:BOLD
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324:and
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