''Adelpha melona'', the Melona sister, is a species of

butterfly 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 ...

of the family

Nymphalidae The Nymphalidae are the largest family of butterflies, with more than 6,000 species distributed throughout most of the world. Belonging to the superfamily Papilionoidea, they are usually medium-sized to large butterflies. Most species ha ...

. It is found in Central and

South America South America is a continent entirely in the Western Hemisphere and mostly in the Southern Hemisphere, with a considerably smaller portion in the Northern Hemisphere. It can also be described as the southern Subregion#Americas, subregion o ...

. The

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is about 50 mm.Parque Nacional Sangay
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Subspecies

*''A. m. melona'' (Brazil (Pará)) *''A. m. deborah'' Weeks, 1901 (Colombia) *''A. m. leucocoma'' Fruhstorfer, 1915 (Brazil (Amazonas), Trinidad) *''A. m. pseudarete'' Fruhstorfer, 1915 *''A. m. neildi'' Willmott, 2003 (Panama)

References

Adelpha Lepidoptera of Brazil Nymphalidae of South America Butterflies of Central America Butterflies described in 1847 Taxa named by William Chapman Hewitson {{Limenitidinae-stub