Adelpha serpa, the celerio sister, is a butterfly of the family Nymphalidae. It was described by Jean Baptiste Boisduval in 1836. It is found from Mexico to Brazil. The habitat consists of rainforests and cloudforests at elevations ranging from 300 to 2,000 meters.[2]
| Celerio sister | |
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| A. serpa observed in Brazil in 2018 | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Nymphalidae |
| Genus: | Adelpha |
| Species: | A. serpa
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| Binomial name | |
| Adelpha serpa | |
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Larvae have been recorded feeding on Miconia multispicata, Conostegia subcrustulata, Sabicea species and Warszewiczia coccinea.[4]
Subspecies edit
- A. s. serpa (south-eastern Brazil to Paraguay, north-eastern Argentina)
- A. s. celerio (Bates, 1864) (Guatemala, Mexico to north-western Venezuela)
- A. s. diadochus Fruhstorfer, 1915 (Peru, Guyana, French Guiana, Brazil: Pará)
- A. s. duiliae Fruhstorfer, 1913 (western Ecuador)
References edit
- ^ "Adelpha Hübner, [1819]" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
- ^ Adelpha serpa in learnaboutbutterflies
- ^ Parque Nacional Sangay (Ecuador)
- ^ "Parasitoid-Caterpillar-Plant Interactions". Archived from the original on 2014-01-09. Retrieved 2014-01-09.
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