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Pierella
Pierella is a butterfly genus from the subfamily Satyrinae in the family Nymphalidae found from Mexico through Central America to South America. The species of Pierella have larger hindwings than forewings, unique among butterflies. The oval green flash on the forewing is also unique. It is caused by diffraction, the wing scales forming a diffraction grating.
Their caterpillars have been found on the host plants Heliconia and Calathea.
16 branches of this genus, most-observed first
Red-washed Satyr
speciesPierella helvina
Moon Satyr
speciesPierella luna
Pierella lena
speciesPierella lena
Pierella lamia
speciesPierella lamia
Pierella nereis
speciesPierella nereis
Glassy Pierella
speciesPierella hyalinus
Pierella hortona
speciesPierella hortona
Pierella lucia
speciesPierella lucia
Golden Lady Slipper
speciesPierella hyceta
Astyoche satyr
speciesPierella astyoche
Pierella keithbrowni
speciesPierella keithbrowni
Pierella kesselringi
speciesPierella kesselringi
Pierella nice
speciesPierella nice
Pierella boliviana
speciesPierella boliviana
Pierella amalia
speciesPierella amalia
Pierella hyalinus velezi
subspeciesPierella hyalinus velezi
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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In the stacks
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 61260.