wingspan : 41 mm
these Altinote leontine collected at 2900 m, slightly North of Zhud, fall between typical A. leontine and form menoetes from Bolivar Province ; and in addition the two males we collected are clearly different.
we keep the "leontine" name 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 ?
