Barbicornis is a monotypic butterfly genus of the family Riodinidae with its single species Barbicornis basilis present in Paraguay, Brazil and Argentina. "barbicornis Staudinger, " at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
The species is easily recognizable by the very small hindwings provided with a long apex of the tail on the lower radial (uppermost median) vein. The original description was published in Encyclopédie Méthodique. They drink early in the morning from wet stones and places on roads or tracks and rest during the day beneath leaves.
Subspecies Barbicornis basilis basilis (Paraguay, Brazil: Espírito Santo, Rio de Janeiro) Barbicornis basilis acroleuca Berg, 1896 Berg, C. 1896 Anales del Museo Nacional de Historia Natural "Bernardino Rivadavia". Buenos Aires 5: 1 (Paraguay) Barbicornis basilis bahiana Azzará, 1978 (Brazil: Bahia) Barbicornis basilis ephippium Thieme, 1907 Thieme, O., 1907. Familiae Lemoniidarum supplementa cum notis (Lepidoptera, Rhopalocera). Berliner Entomologische Zeitschrift 52: 1-16, pl.1. BHL, plate (Brazil: Rio Grande do Sul) Barbicornis basilis marginata Seitz, 1913 (Brazil: Bahia) brownish black with an orange-red collar.The apical margin of the forewing and the whole distal margin of the hindwing, including the xiphoid, honey-yellow. Bahia. Seitz 1913. Family: Riodinidae. In A. Seitz (editor), Macrolepidoptera of the World, vol. 5: 333–356. Stuttgart: Alfred Kernen . Barbicornis basilis mona Westwood, 1851 Westwood, J.O. . In Doubleday, E. & Westwood, J. O., 1850–1852: The genera of diurnal Lepidoptera Vol.2. pp.251–534, pls. 31–80 + Suppl.pl. London (Paraguay, Brazil: Espírito Santo) Barbicornis basilis paraopeba Azzará, 1978 (Brazil: Minas Gerais) Barbicornis basilis tucumana Thieme, 1907 (Argentina) Thieme, 1907 op.cit. Sources
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