Amarynthis

Amarynthis is a monotypic genus of butterflies in the family Riodinidae. Its sole species, Amarynthis meneria, the meneria metalmark, is a common species in lowland rainforests east of the Andes from Venezuela, Suriname and Guyana, south through the Brazilian Amazon to Peru and northern Argentina.

Phylum:Arthropoda

Class:Insecta

Order:Lepidoptera

Family:Riodinidae

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Amarynthis
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Riodinidae
Tribe:	Riodinini
Genus:	Amarynthis Hübner, 1819
Species:	A. meneria
Binomial name
Amarynthis meneria (Cramer, 1776)
Synonyms
Papilio meneria Cramer, 1776 Papilio micalia Cramer, 1776 Hesperia maecenas Fabricius, 1793 (preocc. Fabricius, 1793) Hesperia dimas Fabricius, 1796 Amarynthis meneria f. conflata Stichel, 1910 Amarynthis meneria stenogramma Stichel, 1910 Amarynthis coccitincta Seitz, 1913 Amarynthis superior Seitz, 1913

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The wings are very delicate; the veins deviate from those of Amblygonia only by the 3rd subcostal vein not rising immediately before the cell-end, but immediately behind it. It is black with a narrow red transverse band and sparse light, small dots:in the cell of the forewing a red cuneiform streak, behind it a small red spot.^[1]