Panacea prola

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

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