Microtia (butterfly)

{{Short description|Genus of butterflies}}

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| image = ELF (Microtia elva) (8-21-2015) pena blanca cyn, santa cruz co, az -01 (20759358882).jpg

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| regnum = Animalia

| phylum = Arthropoda

| classis = Insecta

| ordo = Lepidoptera

| familia = Nymphalidae

| subfamilia = Nymphalinae

| tribus = Melitaeini

| subtribus = Chlosynina

| genus = Microtia

| genus_authority = Bates, 1864

| species = M. elva

| binomial = Microtia elva

| binomial_authority = Bates, 1864

| synonyms = *Microtia elva f. draudti Röber, [1914]

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Microtia is a monophyletic genus of butterflies from southern United States and Central America in the family Nymphalidae. It contains the single species Microtia elva, the elf.[http://ftp.funet.fi/pub/sci/bio/life/insecta/lepidoptera/ditrysia/papilionoidea/nymphalidae/nymphalinae/microtia/ "Microtia Bates, 1864"] at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms Larvae of this species feed on Tetramerium and other species in the family Acanthaceae.{{cite book |title=Caterpillars in the Field and Garden: A Field Guide to the Butterfly Caterpillars of North America |first1=Thomas J. |last1=Allen |first2=James P. |last2=Brock |first3=Jeffrey |last3=Glassberg |publisher=OUP USA |year=2005 |isbn=9780195149876 |page=84}}