Kingdom Animalia Class Insecta Family Nymphalidae Rank Species | Phylum Arthropoda Order Lepidoptera Genus Redonda | |
Redonda chiquinquirana is a butterfly species from the subfamily Satyrinae in the family Nymphalidae. It is endemic from the Páramos in the Cordillera de Mérida in Venezuela, in northern South America. R. chiquinquirana show high degree of sexual dimorphism in wingsize, in which females show some degree of wing deformation which might point to incipient brachyptery.
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Taxonomy and nomenclature
Populations of this species were often referred to as a undescribed subspecies of Redonda empetrus.
Conservation
Redonda chiquinquirana is listed as endangered in Venezuela's Red Book of Fauna.
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