Argyrogrammana trochilia described by John Obadiah Westwood in 1851 is a butterfly of the family RiodinidaeWestwood, 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. It is found in Colombia, Bolivia, Lower Amazon -Brazil and the Guianas. Description The male is of a brilliant sky-blue with black transverse stripes and a dark distal margin being finely filled up by orange. The female has 5 yellow stripes on a dark ground and a metallic line often reduced to tiny spots before the border. Under surface of both sexes striped like a zebra. On the Lower Amazon the species is not very rare. Seitz after Hans Stichel Mss., 1913. Family: Riodinidae. In A. Seitz (editor), Macrolepidoptera of the World, vol. 5: 333–356. Stuttgart: Alfred Kernen . images.
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