Nessaea obrinus

Nessaea obrinus
	Female
	Male
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Nymphalidae
Genus:	Nessaea
Species:	N. obrinus
Binomial name
	Nessaea obrinus; (Linnaeus, 1758)
Synonyms
	Papilio obrinus Linnaeus, 1758 ; Papilio ancaeus Linnaeus, 1758; Nessaea obrinus latifascia Röber, 1928; Nessaea obrinus romani Bryk, 1953; Nessaea obrina;

The Obrina Olivewing (Nessaea obrinus) is a species of butterfly of the Nymphalidae family. It is found from Colombia and the Guianas to the mouth of the Amazon and south to central Bolivia and Mato Grosso in Brazil, extending to northern Argentina.^[2]

The length of the wings is 25–40 mm for males and 26–41 mm for females. Adults of ssp. obrinus are on wing in January and from July to November. Adults of ssp. faventia are on wing year round, but mainly from June to October and adults of ssp. lesoudieri are on wing year round, with no observed peak of abundance.

Subspecies

Nessaea obrinus obrinus (Guianas and in eastern Venezuela)
Nessaea obrinus faventia Fruhstorfer, 1910 (Brazil (Mato Grosso), Bolivia)
Nessaea obrinus lesoudieri Le Moult, 1933 (Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Brazil (Amazonas))

References

^ Nessaea, funet.fi
^ Neotropical Nymphalidae VII. Revision of Nessaea

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[1] Nessaea, funet.fi

[2] Neotropical Nymphalidae VII. Revision of Nessaea

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