Dynamine postverta
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| image = Dynamine postverta postverta MHNT male.jpg
| image_caption = D. p. postverta male
| image2 = Dynamine postverta postverta MHNT femelle.jpg
| image2_caption = D. p. postverta female
| taxon = Dynamine postverta
| authority = (Cramer, [1780])[http://www.nic.funet.fi/pub/sci/bio/life/insecta/lepidoptera/ditrysia/papilionoidea/nymphalidae/biblidinae/dynamine/index.html Dynamine] at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
| synonyms =
- Papilio postverta Cramer, [1780]
- Papilio mylitta Cramer, [1780]
- Dynamine mylitta f. uniocellata Bryk, 1953
- Dynamine mylitta thoenii Anken, 1998
- Dynamine postverta mexicana d'Almeida, 1952
- Dynamine mylitta ab. bipupillata Röber, 1915
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Dynamine postverta, the Mylitta greenwing or four-spot sailor, is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It is found throughout most tropical and subtropical areas of Central and South America, from Mexico south to Argentina and Paraguay.{{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20110505024121/http://www.learnaboutbutterflies.com/Amazon%20-%20Dynamine%20postverta.htm Dynamine postverta]}}, Butterflies of the Amazon and Andes The habitat includes primary rainforests, humid deciduous woodlands, scrubby grassland and farmland at altitudes up to about 900 metres.
The larvae feed on Dalechampia species.
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References
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- {{smallcaps|Cramer}}, 1780, Uitl. Kapellen 3 (22), pl.254, f. C,D.
- {{smallcaps|Lamas, Gerardo}}, 2004, Atlas of Neotropical Lepidoptera; Checklist:Part 4A; Hesperioidea-Papilionoidea.
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Category:Butterflies of Central America
Category:Nymphalidae of South America
Category:Taxa named by Pieter Cramer
Category:Lepidoptera of Brazil
Category:Lepidoptera of Ecuador
Category:Lepidoptera of Venezuela
Category:Butterflies described in 1780
Category:Lepidoptera of Mexico
Category:Lepidoptera of Argentina
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