White-tailed longtail
Wing span:
Identification: Tailed butterfly with brown wings. The forewings have a central oblique transparent band with one transparent spot adjacent to this band, and four smaller subapical transparent spots. The fringe and margin of the hindwings is white from the termen to the tornus on the upperside and from apex to the tornus on the underside. The hindwings have faint black markings on the underside.
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Habitat:
Larval food plant: Chloroleucon mangense, Enterolobium cyclocarpum, Hymenolobium mesoamericanum, Machaerium cobanense, Machaerium salvadorense, Mimosa guilandinae, Samanea saman, Vachellia tenuifolia (Warren et al., 2013)
Adult food: Flower nectar of Ageratum
Reported from: CEIBA Biological Centre & Demerara (Region 4), Berbice (Region 6), Kamarang River, Omai & Quonga (Region 7), Acarai Mts., Nappi Creek, Rewa Eco-Lodge & Two Hat Mt. (Region 9)