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Sweet-oil Tiger

Mechanitis lysimnia elisa

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Family: Nymphalidae

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Mechanitis lysimnia elisa (type specimens)

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Comments (2)
DB
Thank you for your correction, bayucca! Sometimes, I don´t know the English common names , because I don´t need them. My error comes from here: http://www.neotropicalbutterflies.com/Site%20Revision/Pages/Nymphalidae_Pages/Ithomiinae/Tith_Mel_Mech/Pages/Mechanitis_lysimnia_elissa.html
bayucca
Common name would be Lysimnia Tiger or in your case of the subespecies Elisa it would be "Sweet Oil Tiger". The Olivencia Tigerwing is another genus/species: Forbestra olivencia. You probably mixed it up...

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