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Melinaea mnasias lucifer Bates, 1862

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Melinaea mnasias lucifer Bates, 1862

Brush-footed butterfly

FMNHINS 0000 125 576 · gbif-1142459357

Classification
Lepidoptera › Nymphalidae › Melinaea
Collected
1961-10-10
Collector
B. Malkin
Region
Loreto, Peru
Elevation
Not recorded
Sex / stage
Indeterminate · Adult
Dataset
Field Museum Insect Collection (GBIF)
License
CC0 1.0

Locality

Original label text

20 km from Ucayali on Río Callería, Colonia Callería

Verbatim, never overwritten

AI-recommended

20 km from Ucayali on Río Callería, Colonia Callería, Loreto, Peru

Published coordinates

Curator-approved

Pending review

Collection event

Method (original)
“Netted at puddle, mid-morning”
Method (AI-normalised)
Aerial netting
Habitat
Not recorded
Label transcription
Not recorded

Field notes & curator annotations

  • Associated with secondary growth at forest edge.

Digitization & audit history

  1. imaged · 2026-10-20 · Collections database

Provenance

Retrieved 2026-10-20 via GBIF Occurrence API, GBIF occurrence 1142459357, occurrenceID 6b70f6dc-0452-4e99-9ef0-01c50fcdd55d. Rights holder: The Field Museum of Natural History.

occurrenceID 6b70f6dc-0452-4e99-9ef0-01c50fcdd55d

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