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Melinaea lilis
Brush-footed butterfly
FMNHINS 0000 808 600 · gbif-1142465331
- Classification
- Lepidoptera › Nymphalidae › Melinaea
- Collected
- 1897-09-23
- Collector
- Van Patten
- 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)
- “Fruit-baited trap (fermented banana)”
- Method (AI-normalised)
- Bait trap
- Habitat
- Not recorded
- Label transcription
- Not recorded
Field notes & curator annotations
- Near stream crossing; humid microhabitat.
Digitization & audit history
- georeferenced · 2026-10-20 · Collections database
Provenance
Retrieved 2026-10-20 via GBIF Occurrence API, GBIF occurrence 1142465331, occurrenceID 1886ba04-3086-4812-bb2a-8bc568178a02. Rights holder: The Field Museum of Natural History.
occurrenceID 1886ba04-3086-4812-bb2a-8bc568178a02
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