Oenomaus curiosa Faynel & Moser

Faynel, Christophe, Busby, Robert C. & Robbins, Robert K., 2012, Review of the species level taxonomy of the neotropical butterfly genus Oenomaus (Lycaenidae, Theclinae, Eumaeini), ZooKeys 222, pp. 11-45 : 23

publication ID

https://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.222.3375

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/B6EB124D-9068-892A-F98C-DE5E4A781B25

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scientific name

Oenomaus curiosa Faynel & Moser
status

 

Oenomaus curiosa Faynel & Moser

Distribution, habitat, and remarks.

Oenomaus curiosa is a species of wet lowland forest that is recorded from French Guiana, Peru (LO, MD), and Brazil (RO).

New material examined.

Peru.- 2♂: MD, 300 m, 30 km S. W. Pto Maldonado, 26.X.1983, S.S. Nicolay, Genitalia No. 1992: 25♂ R.K. Robbins (USNM); LO, 120 m, Pebas, river Amazonas, 03°19'S, 71°51'W, II. 2011, Ramírez leg. (CF). Brazil.- 1♂: RO, 62 km SW Ariquemes, Línea 20, lot 21, 23, 25 (Fazenda Rancho Grande), 11.X.1993, AVZ Brower, gen. prep. CF n°433 (OSAC).

Female.

Unknown

COI DNA sequence.

Two males from French Guiana, including one of the paratypes, have been sequenced (CF-LYC-036 and CF-LYC-037) and show 0.8% divergence.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Lepidoptera

Family

Lycaenidae

Genus

Oenomaus