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Argyrogrammana trochilia

Argyrogrammana trochilia described by John Obadiah Westwood in 1851 is a butterfly of the family Riodinidae It is found in Colombia, Bolivia, Lower Amazon -Brazil and the Guianas.

Description

The male is of a brilliant sky-blue with black transverse stripes and a dark distal margin being finely filled up by orange. The female has 5 yellow stripes on a dark ground and a metallic line often reduced to tiny spots before the border. Under surface of both sexes striped like a zebra. On the Lower Amazon the species is not very rare. images.

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