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Red Flasher (Panacea prola)

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Panacea prola
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Domain: Eukaryota
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.

Subspecies

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  • 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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