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Oenomaus myrteana

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Oenomaus myrteana
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Male
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Lycaenidae
Genus: Oenomaus
Species:
O. myrteana
Binomial name
Oenomaus myrteana
Busby, Robbins & Faynel, 2012

Oenomaus myrteana is a species of butterfly of the family Lycaenidae. It occurs in lowland wet forest from eastern Ecuador to western Brazil (Rondônia).[1]

The length of the forewings is 12.8 mm for males and 12.1 mm for females.

Etymology

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The name of the species refers to the striking resemblance between the ventral hindwing of this species and that of Enos myrtea.

References

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  1. ^ Faynel, C.; Busby, R. C.; Robbins, R. (2012). "Review of the species level taxonomy of the neotropical butterfly genus Oenomaus (Lycaenidae, Theclinae, Eumaeini)". ZooKeys (222): 11–45. Bibcode:2012ZooK..222...11F. doi:10.3897/zookeys.222.3375. PMC 3459029. PMID 23129985. This article incorporates text available under the CC BY 4.0 license.