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Mechanitis

Fabricius

Mechanitis is a genus of tigerwing (ithomiine) butterflies, named by Danish zoologist Johan Christian Fabricius in 1807.

They are in the brush-footed butterfly family, Nymphalidae. It has gained fame due to the metallic appearance of the cocoons of certain phenotypes.

Posted on November 13, 2012 at 4:10 pm in Science   |  RSS feed |   Reply   |   Trackback URL

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