Aeria eurimedia is a species of butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It is found in Central America and northern South America.

Aeria eurimedia
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Nymphalidae
Genus: Aeria
Species:
A. eurimedia
Binomial name
Aeria eurimedia
(Cramer, [1777])[1]
Synonyms
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  • Papilio eurimedia Cramer, [1777]
  • Ithomia eurimedia var. negricola C. & R. Felder, 1862
  • Aeria agna Godman & Salvin, [1879]
  • Ithomia indola Doubleday, [1845]
  • Ithomia agna Doubleday, 1847
  • Aeria pacifica Godman & Salvin, [1879]
  • Aeria sisenna palmara Haensch, 1903

The larvae have been recorded feeding on Prestonia portabellensis.

Subspecies

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  • Aeria eurimedia eurimedia (Guianas, Surinam)
  • Aeria eurimedia negricola (C. & R. Felder, 1862) (Peru)
  • Aeria eurimedia agna Godman & Salvin, [1879] (Nicaragua to Panama and Venezuela)
  • Aeria eurimedia pacifica Godman & Salvin, [1879] (Mexico, Guatemala)
  • Aeria eurimedia sisenna Weymer, 1899 (Ecuador)
  • Aeria eurimedia latistriga Hering, 1925 (Colombia)

References

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  1. ^ "Aeria Hübner, 1816" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms