''Perisama bomplandii'', or Bomplandi's perisama, is a

butterfly 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 ...

belonging to 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 have a re ...

. The species was first described by

Félix Édouard Guérin-Méneville Félix Édouard Guérin-Méneville, also known as F. E. Guerin, (12 October 1799, in Toulon – 26 January 1874, in Paris) was a French entomologist. Life and work Guérin-Méneville changed his surname from Guérin in 1836. He was the author ...

in 1844.

Subspecies

* ''P. b. bomplandii'' (Colombia, Venezuela) * ''P. b. equatorialis'' (Guénée, 1872) (Ecuador) * ''P. b. albipennis'' Butler, 1873 (Peru, Ecuador) * ''P. b. parabomplandii'' Dognin, 1899 (Colombia) * ''P. b. ultramarina'' Oberthür, 1916 (Ecuador) * ''P. b. venezuelana'' Viette, 1958 (Venezuela) * ''P. b. reyi'' Attal & Crosson du Cormier, 2003 (Venezuela)

Description

The

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of ''Perisama bomplandii'' is about .Butterflies of Sangay National Park
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''. Coloration and pattern of these butterflies are quite variable depending on subspecies. Usually the uppersides of the wings are blue black. The forewings are crossed obliquely from the costal margin to the inner margin by wide bands of golden green or blue. Close to the apex sometimes there is a small white spot. On the uppersides of the hindwings the outer margins are bordered with greenish or blueish. At the base there is a brilliant blue. The underside of the anterior wings is black, with a row of five blue spots, a brown inner margin and a gray base followed by light blue. The apex and the outer margin are gray. The undersides of the posterior wings are whitish or grayish, crossed by two black lines. Larvae feed on ''Serjania'' species.

Distribution

This species can be found in Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Venezuela.

References

External links

"Species ''Perisama bomplandii''"
''Butterflies of America''.

''Neotropical Butterflies''.
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" ''Insecta.pro''. Biblidinae Butterflies described in 1844 Nymphalidae of South America {{Biblidinae-stub