Nessaea hewitsonii

Hewitson's olivewing
	upper side
	underside
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Nymphalidae
Genus:	Nessaea
Species:	N. hewitsonii
Binomial name
	Nessaea hewitsonii; (C. & R. Felder, 1859)
Synonyms
	Epicalia hewitsonii C. & R. Felder, 1859; Nessaea hewitsoni;

Nessaea hewitsonii, the Hewitson's olivewing, is a species of butterfly of the family Nymphalidae. It is common in a broad range of the Amazon basin including the eastern slopes of the Andes mountain range. It is found in high evergreen tropical forest, semi-deciduous tropical forest, and riverine forest.^[2]

The length of the wings is 33–40 mm for males and 36–41 mm for females.

Subspecies

Nessaea hewitsonii hewitsonii (from Colombia, Ecuador and Peru eastward into the Amazon valley, and south to Rondonia, Brazil)
Nessaea hewitsonii boliviensis Jenkins, 1989 (Bolivia and southern Peru)

Gallery

A dead individual due to predation.
A glimpse of a captive specimen

References

^ "Nessaea Hübner, [1819]" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
^ Neotropical Nymphalidae VII. Revision of Nessaea

This article related to members of the butterfly subfamily Biblidinae is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.

[1] "Nessaea Hübner, [1819]" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms

[2] Neotropical Nymphalidae VII. Revision of Nessaea

[1]

[2]