''Syrmatia'' is a South American metalmark butterfly

genus Genus (; : genera ) is a taxonomic rank above species and below family (taxonomy), family as used in the biological classification of extant taxon, living and fossil organisms as well as Virus classification#ICTV classification, viruses. In bino ...

in the subfamily

Riodininae __NOTOC__ Riodininae is the largest of the three subfamilies within the metalmark butterfly family Family (from ) is a Social group, group of people related either by consanguinity (by recognized birth) or Affinity (law), affinity (by ma ...

. There are four species in the genus. All are

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 biogeogra ...

and have long tails on the hindwings.

External links

''Syrmatia'' at EOLTOL

at Markku Savela's website on Lepidoptera Riodinini Riodinidae of South America Butterfly genera Taxa named by Jacob Hübner Taxa described in 1819 {{riodinidae-stub