Art Shapiro's Butterfly Site
Monitoring butterfly populations across Central California for more than 35 years… Butterfly Listing by Common Name (Family Riodinidae)
Riodinidae
The Metal-marks are a dramatically colored and patterned, and consist of at least 1250 species. Most of these small butterflies are Neotropical in distribution, and only one species ranges into central California. Like the Gossamer-wings, many metal-marks are myrmecophilous.
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Mormon Metal-Mark Apodemia mormo |