Oenomaus isabellae
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Ordo: Lepidoptera
Familia: Lycaenidae
Genus: Oenomaus
Name
Oenomaus isabellae Faynel – Wikispecies link – Pensoft Profile
Distribution, habitat, and remarks
This widespread South American species occurs in wet and dry lowland forests. It is recorded from French Guiana, Colombia, eastern Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, and Brazil (AM, MG).
New material examined
Colombia.– 1♀: Muzo, 400b. 800 m, coll. Fassl (SMF). Ecuador.– 2♀: Morona-Santiago, Santiago (Hill North of Town), 3°02.3'S, 78°00.3'W, 350 m, 20.IX.2010, Robert C. Busby leg. (RCB); 27 km Santiago-Puerto Moreno Rd., 2°56.4'S, 77°49.5'W, 500–550 m, 17 IX 2005, Robert C. Busby, leg. (RCB). Peru.– 1♀: JU, Aldea, 600–700 m, 1054/7455, 23.VIII.2003, J.J. Ramírez (MUSM). Brazil. – 2♂: MG, km 500 Belo Horizonte-Brasília, Hwy, 11.IV.1973, C. Callaghan, genitalia slide/vial #4737, prep. S.S. Nicolay (USNM); AM, Rio Amazonas, Vila Nova (ca. Tonantins, 0252S/6748), 100 m, IX.1993, M. Büche leg. (MUSM). Bolivia.– 1♂: Las Juntas, XII. 1913, Steinbach Acc. 5045, genitalia slide/vial #4743, prep. S.S. Nicolay (CMNH).
Female
The distinctive ventral wing pattern of this species allows identification of the female.
COI DNA sequence
Sequences from a Brazilian male (CF-LYC-006) and French Guiana female paratype (CF-LYC-007) diverge 3.0%.