Oenomaus mancha

Oenomaus mancha
	Female
	Male
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Lycaenidae
Genus:	Oenomaus
Species:	O. mancha
Binomial name
	Oenomaus mancha; Busby & Faynel, 2012

Oenomaus mancha is a species of butterfly of the family Lycaenidae. It occurs widely in wet forest in eastern Ecuador at elevations ranging from 400 to 1,100 meters.^[1]

The length of the forewings is 20.8 mm for males and 19.4 mm for females. Adult males and females are attracted to traps baited with rotting fish.

Etymology

The name of the species is derived from the Spanish word mancha (meaning spot) and refers to the very distinctive, elongated black spot in VHW cell Sc+R1-Rs.

References

↑ 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 (222): 11–45. doi:10.3897/zookeys.222.3375. PMC 3459029. PMID 23129985.

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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 (222): 11–45. doi:10.3897/zookeys.222.3375. PMC 3459029. PMID 23129985.