Adelpha iphiclus

Iphiclus sister
A. i. iphiclus Cristalino River Southern Amazon, Brazil
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Nymphalidae
Genus:	Adelpha
Species:	A. iphiclus
Binomial name
Adelpha iphiclus (Linnaeus, 1758) [1]
Synonyms
Papilio iphiclusLinnaeus, 1758 Papilio basileaCramer, [1777] Adelpha basilisHübner, [1819] Adelpha iphicla pharaëFruhstorfer, 1915 Adelpha iphicla exanimaFruhstorfer, 1915 Adelpha iphicla funalisFruhstorfer, 1915 Heterochroa iphiclus ephesaMénétriés, 1857 Heterochroa ephesaMénétriés, 1855 Adelpha iphicla gelliaFruhstorfer, 1915 Adelpha abyla abylinaFruhstorfer, 1915 Adelpha iphiclus estrechaWillmott & Hall, 1999

Adelpha iphiclus, the Iphiclus sister, is a butterfly of the family Nymphalidae. It was described by Carl Linnaeus in his 1758 10th edition of Systema Naturae. It is found in the tropics and sub-tropics of Central and South America, from Mexico to Bolivia. The habitat consists of disturbed areas in deciduous and evergreen forests at altitudes ranging from 0 to 1,200 meters.

The wingspan is about 47 mm. ^[2] Adult males engage in mud-puddling. Adults of both sexes feed at over-ripe fruits of mango, Guazuma and Genipa , but have also been observed feeding on the nectar of Vochysia and Paullinia flowers.

The larvae feed on Calycophyllum candidissimum , Isertia and Uncaria species. ^[3]

Subspecies

• Adelpha iphiclus iphiclus (Mexico to western Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Surinam, Brazil: Amazon, Mato Grosso)
• Adelpha iphiclus ephesa(Ménétriés, 1857) (Brazil: Santa Catarina, São Paulo to north-eastern Argentina)
• Adelpha iphiclus estrechaWillmott & Hall, 1999 (western Ecuador)

In Pieter Cramer and Caspar Stoll's Uitlandsche Kapellen E and F

References

1. "Adelpha Hübner, [1819]" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
2. Parque Nacional Sangay (Ecuador)
3. Adelpha iphiclus in learnbutterflies