Arawacus

Arawacus is a genus of butterflies in the family Lycaenidae. They are commonly called stripestreaks. The species of this genus are found in the Neotropical realm.

Stripestreaks
Fine-lined stripe-streak (A. sito) in Panama
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Lycaenidae
Tribe:	Eumaeini
Genus:	Arawacus Kaye, 1904
Synonyms
Polyniphes Kaye, 1904 Dolymorpha Holland, 1931 Tigrinota Johnson, 1992

Species include:

• Arawacus aethesa (Hewitson, 1867) Brazil (Bahia)
• Arawacus aetolus (Sulzer, 1776) Columbia, Venezuela, Trinidad, Bolivia, Suriname
• Arawacus binangula (Schaus, 1902) Brazil (Paraná)
• Arawacus dolylas (Cramer, [1777]) Surinam, Venezuela, Colombia, Bolivia
• Arawacus dumenilii (Godart, [1824]) Venezuela, Trinidad
• Arawacus ellida (Hewitson, 1867) Venezuela, Paraguay, Colombia, Peru, Argentina, Brazil (Rio de Janeiro)
• Arawacus euptychia (Draudt, 1920 Brazil
• Arawacus hypocrita (Schaus, 1913) Costa Rica, Mexico
• Arawacus jada (Hewitson, 1867) North America – creamy stripe-streak, nightshade hairstreak
• Arawacus leucogyna (C. & R.Felder, 1865) Costa Rica, Panama, Venezuela, Colombia
• Arawacus lincoides (Draudt, 1917) Colombia
• Arawacus meliboeus (Fabricius, 1793) Brazil
• Arawacus separata (Lathy, 1926) Peru, Paraguay
• Arawacus sito (Boisduval, 1836) Mexico, south to Central America – fine-lined stripe-streak
• Arawacus tadita (Hewitson, 1877) Brazil (Paraná)
• Arawacus tarania (Hewitson, 1868) Brazil (Paraná, Minas Gerais)
• Arawacus togarna (Hewitson, 1867) Mexico, Bolivia

External links

• Media related to Arawacus at Wikimedia Commons
• Savela, Markku. "Arawacus Kaye, 1904". Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms. Retrieved August 30, 2018.