Arawacus

Stripestreaks
Fine-lined stripe-streak (A. sito) in Panama
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Clade:	Pancrustacea
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Lycaenidae
Tribe:	Eumaeini
Genus:	Arawacus Kaye, 1904
Synonyms
Polyniphes Kaye, 1904 Dolymorpha Holland, 1931 Tigrinota Johnson, 1992

Arawacus is a genus of butterflies in the family Lycaenidae. They are commonly called stripestreaks. The species of this genus are found in the Neotropical realm.

Species include (17 species are recognized by Butterflies of America):

• Arawacus aethesa (Hewitson, 1867) Brazil (Bahia)
• Arawacus aetolus (Sulzer, 1776) Colombia, Venezuela, Trinidad, Bolivia, Suriname
• Arawacus binangula (Schaus, 1902) Brazil (Paraná)
• Arawacus dolylas (Cramer, [1777]) Surinam, Venezuela, Colombia, Bolivia
• Arawacus dumenilii (Godart, [1824]) Venezuela, Trinidad
• Arawacus ellida (Hewitson, 1867) Venezuela, Paraguay, Colombia, Peru, Argentina, Brazil (Rio de Janeiro)
• Arawacus euptychia (Draudt, 1920) Brazil
• Arawacus hypocrita (Schaus, 1913) Costa Rica, Mexico
• Arawacus jada (Hewitson, 1867) North America – creamy stripe-streak, nightshade hairstreak
• Arawacus leucogyna (C. & R.Felder, 1865) Costa Rica, Panama, Venezuela, Colombia
• Arawacus lincoides (Draudt, 1917) Colombia
• Arawacus meliboeus (Fabricius, 1793) Brazil
• Arawacus separata (Lathy, 1926) Peru, Paraguay
• Arawacus sito (Boisduval, 1836) Mexico, south to Central America – fine-lined stripe-streak
• Arawacus tadita (Hewitson, 1877) Brazil (Paraná)
• Arawacus tarania (Hewitson, 1868) Brazil (Paraná, Minas Gerais)
• Arawacus togarna (Hewitson, 1867) Mexico, Bolivia

References

External links

• Media related to Arawacus at Wikimedia Commons
• Savela, Markku. "Arawacus Kaye, 1904". Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms. Retrieved August 30, 2018.