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Urania leilus, the green-banded urania, is a day-flying moth of the family Uraniidae. The species was first described by Carl Linnaeus in his 1758 10th edition of Systema Naturae . It is found in tropical South America east of the Andes , especially in the Amazon rainforest .
Urania leilus Linnaeus, 1758 – green-banded urania (tropical South America east of the Andes) Urania fulgens Walker, 1854 – urania swallowtail moth (Mexico, through Central America to northwestern South America) Urania poeyi Herrich-Schäffer, 1866 – (eastern Cuba) Urania sloanus Cramer, 1779 – Sloane's urania (Jamaica; extinct c. 1894)
They are blackish with markings in iridescent green or light blue; some species have orange, gold or pink highlights. They are as brightly marked as the most colorful butterflies ; indeed, they bear an uncanny resemblance in shape and coloration to some papilionid butterflies (swallowtails and relatives).
Urania fulgens, the urania swallowtail moth or green page moth, [1] is a day-flying moth of the family Uraniidae.The species was first described by Francis Walker in 1854. It is found from Veracruz, Mexico, through Central America to northwestern South America (west of the Andes and south to Ecuador).
The Uraniidae are a family of moths containing four subfamilies, 90 genera, and roughly 700 species.The family is distributed throughout the tropics of the Americas, Africa and Indo-Australia. [2]
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Wing scales of a Urania ripheus (sunset moth) (6.25x) in Nikon's Small World Photomicropgraphy Competition WildMadagascar.org Contains two photos of a wild sunset moth (near the bottom of the page). Nature's Iridescence, An Electron Microscopic Study Archived 2010-07-01 at the Wayback Machine Contains pictures of the sunset moth's green ...
Urania boisduvalii is a day-flying moth of the family Uraniidae.It was first described by Félix Édouard Guérin-Méneville in 1829. A genetic analysis of Urania moths gave rise to a phylogenetic tree which places U. boisduvalii as sister to the in-group that includes U. fulgens spp. poeyi, U. fulgens, U. sloanus, U. sloanus, U. leilus and U. leilus spp. brasiliensis.