Prepona pylene

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| image = Flickr - ggallice - Prepona pylene v.jpg

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| taxon = Prepona pylene

| authority = Hewitson, 1853[http://ftp.funet.fi/pub/sci/bio/life/insecta/lepidoptera/ditrysia/papilionoidea/nymphalidae/charaxinae/prepona/ "Prepona Boisduval, [1836]"] at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms

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• Prepona miranda Staudinger, [1885]
• Prepona pylene santina Fruhstorfer, 1897
• Prepona pylene proschion Fruhstorfer, 1904
• Prepona transiens Fruhstorfer, 1905
• Prepona eugenes Bates, 1865
• Prepona simois C. & R. Felder, 1867
• Prepona eugenes var. ecuadorica Strand, 1921
• Prepona eugenes ameinogenes Röber, 1928
• Prepona gnorima Bates, 1865
• Prepona demophile Westwood, 1850
• Prepona demophile C. & R. Felder, 1867
• Prepona eugenes argyria Fruhstorfer, 1916
• Prepona laertides Staudinger, 1898
• Prepona eugenes diluta Fruhstorfer, 1904
• Prepona eugenes decorata Fruhstorfer, 1904
• Prepona pylene philetas Fruhstorfer, 1904

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Prepona pylene, the narrow-banded shoemaker, is a butterfly of the family Nymphalidae. It was described by William Chapman Hewitson in 1853. It is found throughout the Amazonian region from Honduras to Paraguay. The habitat consists of rainforests at altitudes between 400 and 1,000 meters.[https://learnbutterflies.com/narrow-banded-shoemaker/ Prepona pylene in learnbutterflies]