Agrias amydon

Agrias amydon
A. a. frontina
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Nymphalidae
Genus:	Agrias
Species:	A. amydon
Binomial name
Agrias amydon Hewitson, [1854]
Synonyms
Agrias phalcidon Hewitson, 1855 Agrias pericles Bates, 1860 Agrias anaxagoras Staudinger, 1886 Agrias eleonora Fruhstorfer, 1895 Agrias mapiri Fassl, 1913

Agrias amydon, the Amydon agrias or white-spotted agrias, is a butterfly of the family Nymphalidae. It is found in Mexico, Central America, and South America.

The larvae feed on Erythroxylum species including E. havanense.

Subspecies

• A. a. amydon (Colombia)
• A. a. phalcidon (Brazil)
• A. a. zenodorus (Ecuador, northern Peru)
• A. a. amydonius (Peru (Loreto, Iquitos), Brazil (Amazonas), Colombia)
• A. a. boliviensis (Bolivia (Yungas), Peru)
• A. a. bogotana (western Venezuela to north-eastern Colombia)
• A. a. frontina (north-western Ecuador (Rio Mira), western Colombia)
• A. a. ferdinandi (Brazil (Mato Grosso, Minas Gerais, Goiás, Bahia, Pernambuco), Bolivia)
• A. a. aurantiaca (Brazil (Pará, Amazonas), Surinam, south-western Venezuela)
• A. a. aristoxenus (Peru, Bolivia)
• A. a. excelsior (Brazil (Amazonas))
• A. a. uniformis (Brazil (Roraima), southern Venezuela)
• A. a. rubella (Brazil (Amazonas))
• A. a. oaxacata (Mexico (Oaxaca))
• A. a. smalli (Panama)
• A. a. philatelica (Mexico (Chiapas), Costa Rica)
• A. a. lacandona (Mexico)

There is also an undescribed subspecies from Venezuela.

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  A. a. amydonius

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  A. a. phalcidon