''Arawacus'' is a genus of
butterflies
Butterflies are winged insects from the lepidopteran superfamily Papilionoidea, characterized by large, often brightly coloured wings that often fold together when at rest, and a conspicuous, fluttering flight. The oldest butterfly fossi ...
in the family
Lycaenidae
Lycaenidae is the second-largest family (biology), family of butterflies (behind Nymphalidae, brush-footed butterflies), with over 6,000 species worldwide, whose members are also called gossamer-winged butterflies. They constitute about 30% of ...
. They are commonly called stripestreaks. The species of this genus are found in the
Neotropical realm
The Neotropical realm is one of the eight biogeographic realms constituting Earth's land surface. Physically, it includes the tropics, tropical Ecoregion#Terrestrial, terrestrial ecoregions of the Americas and the entire South American temperat ...
.
Species
A species () is often defined as the largest group of organisms in which any two individuals of the appropriate sexes or mating types can produce fertile offspring, typically by sexual reproduction. It is the basic unit of Taxonomy (biology), ...
include:
* ''
Arawacus aethesa''
(Hewitson, 1867) Brazil (Bahia)
* ''
Arawacus aetolus''
(Sulzer, 1776) Columbia, Venezuela, Trinidad, Bolivia, Suriname
* ''
Arawacus binangula ''
(Schaus, 1902) Brazil (Paraná)
* ''
Arawacus dolylas''
(Cramer, 777 Surinam, Venezuela, Colombia, Bolivia
* ''
Arawacus dumenilii ''
(Godart, 824
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Events
By date
* February 8 – The Tenchō era begins in Japan at the beginning of the reign of the Emperor Junna, bringing an end to the ...
Venezuela, Trinidad
* ''
Arawacus ellida''
(Hewitson, 1867) Venezuela, Paraguay, Colombia, Peru, Argentina, Brazil (Rio de Janeiro)
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Arawacus euptychia ''
(Draudt, 1920 Brazil
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Arawacus hypocrita''
(Schaus, 1913) Costa Rica, Mexico
* ''
Arawacus jada''
(Hewitson, 1867) North America – creamy stripe-streak, nightshade hairstreak
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Arawacus leucogyna''
(C. & R.Felder, 1865) Costa Rica, Panama, Venezuela, Colombia
* ''
Arawacus lincoides''
(Draudt, 1917) Colombia
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Arawacus meliboeus''
(Fabricius, 1793) Brazil
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Arawacus separata ''
(Lathy, 1926) Peru, Paraguay
* ''
Arawacus sito''
(Boisduval, 1836) Mexico, south to Central America – fine-lined stripe-streak
* ''
Arawacus tadita''
(Hewitson, 1877) Brazil (Paraná)
* ''
Arawacus tarania''
(Hewitson, 1868) Brazil (Paraná, Minas Gerais)
* ''
Arawacus togarna''
(Hewitson, 1867) Mexico, Bolivia
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Eumaeini
Lycaenidae of South America
Lycaenidae genera
Taxonomy articles created by Polbot
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