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This is a list of butterflies of the Amazon River basin and the Andes. The Amazon River basin may be the most speciose region for butterflies. Nine countries have territory in the Amazon River basin or immediately adjoin this region: Brazil, Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador, Colombia, Venezuela, Guyana, Suriname, and French Guiana.
Fish of the Amazon basin (368 P) Pages in category "Fauna of the Amazon" ... List of butterflies of the Amazon River basin and the Andes; A. Acalle (sponge) Acouchi;
Caligo eurilochus, the forest giant owl, is an owl butterfly (tribe Brassolini of nymphalid subfamily Morphinae) ranging from Mexico, through Central America, to the Amazon River basin in South America. It is a very large butterfly, among the largest in its family, with a wingspan up to 17 centimetres. The type locality is Suriname. [1]
Amazon River Basin (The southern Guianas, not marked on this map, are a part of the basin.) The mouth of the Amazon River. The Amazon basin is the part of South America drained by the Amazon River and its tributaries. The Amazon drainage basin covers an area of about 7,000,000 km 2 (2,700,000 sq mi), [1] or about 35.5 percent of the South ...
It also includes the "catch and release" of butterflies. There are clubs, handbooks, checklists, and festivals devoted to the activity. The Canada Day and Fourth of July annual butterfly count, a census of species by butterfly watchers throughout North America , is an example of citizen science .
Philaethria dido, the scarce bamboo page or dido longwing, is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae.It is found in Central America and tropical South America, both east and west of the Andes, from Brazil and Ecuador northwards to Mexico.
Lists of butterflies of South America — native butterflies by the countries, territories, and/or islands of South America. Pages in category "Lists of butterflies of South America" The following 4 pages are in this category, out of 4 total.
The Amazon biome has an area of 6,700,000 square kilometres (2,600,000 sq mi). [2] [a] The biome roughly corresponds to the Amazon basin, but excludes areas of the Andes to the west and cerrado (savannah) to the south, and includes lands to the northeast extending to the Atlantic ocean with similar vegetation to the Amazon basin. [2]