Nessaea hewitsonii

Nessaea hewitsonii, the Hewitson's olivewing, is a species of butterfly of the family Nymphalidae. It is common in a broad range of the Amazon basin including the eastern slopes of the Andes mountain range. It is found in high evergreen tropical forest, semi-deciduous tropical forest, and riverine forest.^[2]

Hewitson's olivewing
upper side
underside
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Nymphalidae
Genus:	Nessaea
Species:	N. hewitsonii
Binomial name
Nessaea hewitsonii (C. & R. Felder, 1859)[1]
Synonyms
Epicalia hewitsonii C. & R. Felder, 1859 Nessaea hewitsoni

The length of the wings is 33–40 mm for males and 36–41 mm for females.^{[citation needed]}

Subspecies

• Nessaea hewitsonii hewitsonii (from Colombia, Ecuador and Peru eastward into the Amazon valley, and south to Rondonia, Brazil)
• Nessaea hewitsonii boliviensis Jenkins, 1989 (Bolivia and southern Peru)

Gallery

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  A dead individual due to predation.
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  A captive specimen