Contrafacia is a genus of
Neotropical
The Neotropical realm is one of the eight biogeographic realms constituting Earth's land surface. Physically, it includes the tropical terrestrial ecoregions of the Americas and the entire South American temperate zone.
Definition
In bi ...
butterflies
Butterflies are insects in the macrolepidopteran clade Rhopalocera from the order Lepidoptera, which also includes moths. Adult butterflies have large, often brightly coloured wings, and conspicuous, fluttering flight. The group comprises t ...
in the family
Lycaenidae
Lycaenidae is the second-largest 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 the known butterfly ...
.
Species
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Contrafacia bassania''
(Hewitson, 1868) Mexico
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Contrafacia marmoris''
(Druce, 1907) Colombia, Venezuela
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Contrafacia ahola''
(Hewitson, 1867) Mexico, Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador
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Contrafacia imma''
(Prittwitz, 1865) Mexico, Guatemala, Surinam, French Guiana, Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Brazil, Paraguay, Argentina
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Contrafacia francis''
(Weeks, 1901) Bolivia, Argentina
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Contrafacia muattina''
(Schaus, 1902) Brazil
References
Eumaeini
Lycaenidae of South America
Lycaenidae genera
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