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Mechanitis Fabricius, 1807
Brush-footed butterfly
FMNHINS 0000 812 411 · gbif-1142460361
- Classification
- Lepidoptera › Nymphalidae › Mechanitis
- Collected
- 2005-08-21
- Collector
- Not recorded
- Region
- Costa Rica
- Elevation
- Not recorded
- Sex / stage
- Indeterminate · Adult
- Dataset
- Field Museum Insect Collection (GBIF)
- License
- CC0 1.0
Locality
Original label text
NO PRECISE LOCALITY DATA
AI-recommended
Costa Rica
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
- Series collected same evening; this specimen representative.
Digitization & audit history
- georeferenced · 2026-10-20 · Collections database
Provenance
Retrieved 2026-10-20 via GBIF Occurrence API, GBIF occurrence 1142460361, occurrenceID ccf9f674-5fff-4d2b-9411-d34c5c893871. Rights holder: The Field Museum of Natural History.
occurrenceID ccf9f674-5fff-4d2b-9411-d34c5c893871
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