Red-barred Amarynthis

Amarynthis meneria · Order: Lepidoptera · Family: Riodinidae

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Red-barred Amarynthis
Photo: yakovlev.alexey from Moscow, Russia, CC BY-SA 2.0

The bug is black with a narrow red band across the wings and has small light dots, plus a red wedge-shaped streak and a tiny red spot on the forewing cell. Its wing veins differ from those of Amblygonia because the third subcostal vein arises just behind the cell end rather than immediately before it.

Source: Wikipedia

Lookalikes

It can be confused with Amblygonia, but its third subcostal vein starts just behind the cell end, unlike Amblygonia where it rises immediately before the cell end.

Source: Wikipedia

More photos

Red-barred Amarynthis photo 2
Photo: NSG group from Lund, Sweden, CC0
Red-barred Amarynthis photo 3
Photo: Bernard DUPONT from FRANCE, CC BY-SA 2.0
Red-barred Amarynthis photo 4
Photo: yakovlev.alexey from Moscow, Russia, CC BY-SA 2.0
Red-barred Amarynthis photo 5
Photo: Bernard DUPONT from FRANCE, CC BY-SA 2.0

Same family (Riodinidae)

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Sources

  • Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amarynthis

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Text written 2026-10-24 from the sources above and checked sentence by sentence against them. Data fetched 2026-10-23.

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