Summary ²

Prepona pylene, the narrow-banded shoemaker, is a butterfly of the Nymphalidae family. It was described by 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.

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1. (c) Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History, Department of Entomology, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-SA), https://collections.nmnh.si.edu/services/media.php?env=ento&irn=10466089
2. (c) Wikipedia, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA), http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prepona_pylene

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