Butterfly watching in Serra de Itapetinga,Atibaia,SP,Brazil

Butterfly watching in Serra de Itapetinga (Itapetinga Mountain),Atibaia,SP,Brazil

On May 2, 2015, we were (Antonio Silveira and Ricardo Pires de Campos) in the “Sierra de Itapetinga” in the municipality of Atibaia, Sao Paulo state, Brazil, more exactly in the area of “Reserva Ecológica do Vuna” to observe birds for the Project Birdlist by Location, and we would observe butterflies. Thanks Ricardo Pires de Campos by the company in field.

We recorded many species. Some species were able to identify as follow. By Antonio Silveira.

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Adelpha syma  (Godart, [1824]) (*)

Agraulis vanillae maculosa (Stichel, [1908])

Danaus gilippus (Cramer, 1776)

Diaethria c. candrena (Godart, [1824])

Epityches eupompe (Geyer, 1832)

Hamadryas februa (Hübner, [1823])

Hypanartia bella (Fabricius, 1793)

Junonia evarete  (Cramer, 1779)

Philaethria wernickei (Röber, 1906)

Pseudolycaena marsyas (Linnaeus, 1758)  (Probably)

Parides proneus (Hübner, 1831)

Placidina euryanassa (C. & R. Felder, 1860)

Tegosa claudina (Eschscholtz, 1821) Claudina Crescent

Xenophanes tryxus (Stoll 1780)

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Photos also by Antonio Silveira

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(*) espécie identificada pelo entomólogo Renato Oliveira (MZSP), ao qual agradeçemos muito a colaboração.

Agradecemos ao Biol. Gustavo de Mattos Accacio @borboletas_do_brasil pela revisão da lista em junho 2020.

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Antonio Silveira: 03-5-2015. atualizações 25-9-2015. 24-6-2020.