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''Mesene'' is a genus in the butterfly family Riodinidae present in the Neotropical ecozone. Except the totally unicolorously scarlet species of this genus the species exhibit many local forms.The males have triangular, pointed, brightly coloured forewings and small ellipsoidal hindwings. In the wing veins the species exhibit great conformity, the second subcostal vein, the upper median vein in the forewing as well as in the hindwing rise before the cell-end. They rest well hidden on the under surface of leaves but fly when disturbed somewhat like Geometrids for about 10 to 20 metres always keeping in the middle of the forest-roads, in order to drop again into another bush. The larvae are lycaenid-like, somewhat like wood-lice, fluffily haired; that of M. phareus lives on the extremely poisonous ''Paullinia pinnata'' to the leaf of which also the small greenish-yellow pupa is spun. == Species == *''Mesene babosa'' Hall & Willmott, 1995 present en Ecuador *''Mesene bomilcar'' (Stoll, 1790) present in French Guiana, Guyana, Surinam *''Mesene celetes'' Bates, 1868 present in Venezuela and Brazil *''Mesene citrinella'' Hall & Willmott, 1995 present in Ecuador, Colombia and Brazil *''Mesene croceella'' Bates, 1865 present in Mexico and Costa Rica *''Mesene cyneas'' (Hewitson, 1874) present in Brazil, Ecuador and Peru *''Mesene epaphus'' (Stoll, 1780) present in French Guiana, Guyana, Surinam and Brazil *''Mesene florus'' (Fabricius, 1793) present in Brazil *''Mesene hyale'' C. & R. Felder, 1865 present in Colombia *''Mesene ingrumaensis'' Callaghan & Salazar, 1999 present in Colombia *''Mesene leucophrys'' Bates, 1868 present in Surinam, Brazil and Peru *''Mesene leucopus'' Godman & Salvin, () present in Guatemala *''Mesene margaretta'' (White, 1843) present in Mexico, Colombia, Bolivia and Venezuela *''Mesene monostigma'' (Erichson, ()) present in French Guiana, Guyana, Surinam, Venezuela and Brazil *''Mesene mygdon'' Schaus, 1913 present in Costa Rica and Panama *''Mesene nepticula'' Möschler, 1877 present in French Guiana, Guyana, Surinam, Ecuador, Colombia and Brazil *''Mesene nola'' Herrich-Schäffer, () present in Surinam, Ecuador, Bolivia and Brazil *''Mesene paraena'' Bates, 1868 present in Brasil *''Mesene patawa'' Brévignon, 1995 present in French Guiana *''Mesene phareus'' (Cramer, ()) present in Mexico, Colombia, French Guiana, Guyana, Surinam, Brazil and Peru *''Mesene philonis'' Hewitson, 1874 present in Brazil *''Mesene pyrippe'' Hewitson, 1874 present in Brazil *''Mesene sardonyx'' Stichel, 1910 present in Colombia *''Mesene silaris'' Godman & Salvin, 1878 present in French Guiana, Guyana, Surinam, Ecuador, Venezuela, Guatemala and Peru *''Mesene simplex'' Bates, 1868 present in Brazil *''Mesene veleda'' Stichel, 1923 present in Brazil 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Mesene (butterfly)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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