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Yramea cytheris

Yramea cytheris

Ana del Sur

Family: Nymphalidae
Order: Lepidoptera
Class: Insecta
Phylum / Division: Arthropoda
Kingdom: Animalia

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Synonyms: Issoria cytheris.

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Yramea cytheris is a species of butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It was first described by Dru Drury in 1773 from the Falkland Islands. In some systems it is included in genus Issoria.

 Upperside: head, eyes, thorax, and abdomen dark brown. Anterior wings brown orange, with a number of small black spots thereon (not less than twenty) of various shapes and sizes. Next to the body these wings are darker and pilose (covered with fine hair). Posterior wings are the same colour as the superior, and spotted with many small black spots of different shapes dispersed all over the wings; they are also darker next to the body and hairy.

Underside: palpi reddish. Anterior wings sandy orange coloured, rather paler than the upperside. Near the tips is a white streak placed next the anterior margin, and close thereto is a cloud of a dark red. Most of the small black spots are seen on this side, but less distinctly. Posterior wings dark red, with several faint clouds. A narrow white streak, about a quarter of an inch (6 mm) in length, is placed near the middle of each of these wings; and another much shorter is placed on the anterior edge, near the upper corner. All the wings are entire.

Wingspan inches (32 mm).

Subspecies: 
  • Yramea cytheris cytheris (Falkland Islands)
  • Yramea cytheris siga (Geyer, 1832) (Chile, Argentina)

Source: Wikipedia, article Yramea cytheris. Content adapted from Wikipedia, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license. Accessed on 16/07/2026.





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Foto
Photography ID: 340658
  Adult

Ushuaia
Tierra del Fuego
Argentina
01/30/2011
Rodolfo Capdevielle
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Photography ID: 55773
  Adult

Ushuaia
Tierra del Fuego
Argentina
01/31/2014
Alec Earnshaw



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Record IDDateExact timeCountryProvince / departmentPlaceFilmedPhotographedRecorded vocalObservedHeardWounded or deadNumber of individualsUser or BibliographyDetail
54443213/02/2017ArgentinaTierra del FuegoEstancia Tunel, Ushuaia1Alec Earnshaw
54192531/01/2014ArgentinaTierra del FuegoUshuaiaAlec Earnshaw
94393830/01/2011ArgentinaTierra del FuegoGlaciar Martial, UshuaiaRodolfo Capdevielle
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Please use the following reference when citing this species account.
EcoRegistros. 2026. Yramea cytheris – Species account. Accessed from www.ecoregistros.org on 14/09/2026.