wingspan : male 42, female 52 mm
Altinote euclia, found at Ñuñurco ; the female is surprising, with its yellow ground colour it looks rather like form menoetes from farther West.
we fist kept the "leontine" name, and not "negra leontine" for two reasons :
1 - the scarcity, the behaviour and the limited hatchings of this butterfly have nothing to do with the huge numbers, the behaviour (mud puddling) and the massive hatchings of Altinote negra.
2 - Gerardo Lamas didn't tell the reasons why he synonimized leontine and negra ?
for many years we called these butterflies Altinote leontine, but the name euclia is older.
