Red Flasher (Panacea prola)

Panacea prola
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Nymphalidae
Genus:	Panacea
Species:	P. prola
Binomial name
Panacea prola (Doubleday, [1848])[1]
Synonyms
Pandora prola Doubleday, [1848] Pandora prola Westwood, [1850]

Panacea prola, the prola beauty or red flasher, is a species of butterfly of the family Nymphalidae. It is found from Costa Rica^[2] to southern Brazil, but is most common in the foothills of the eastern Peruvian Andes.^[3]

The wingspan is 65–75 mm. The underside of the hindwings is bright red without markings.

• Panacea prola prola (Colombia, Venezuela)
• Panacea prola zaraja Fruhstorfer, 1912 (Venezuela)
• Panacea prola amazonica Fruhstorfer, 1915 (Upper Amazon, Peru, Ecuador)
• Panacea prola prolifica Fruhstorfer, 1915 (Ecuador)

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