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Out of the blue: a new blue Lymanopoda butterfly from the páramo of northern Colombia raises questions about disjunct distributions (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae, Satyrinae)
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- 1. Department of Evolution of Invertebrates, Institute of Zoology and Biomedical Research, Jagiellonian University, Gronostajowa 9, 30-387 Kraków, Poland
- 2. 7 Lotissement l'Horizon, Le Puy Sainte Réparade, France,
- 3. Nature Education Centre, Jagiellonian University, Gronostajowa 5, 30-387 Kraków, Poland
- 4. Biology Department, University of Lund, Lund, Sweden,
- 5. Instituto de Ciencias Naturales ICN, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Carrera 30, No. 45-03, Bogotá, Colombia
- 6. Hungarian National Museum Public Collections Centre, Budapest-Hungarian Natural History Museum, Department of Zoology, H-1088 Budapest, Baross utca 13, Hungary; & HUN-REN, Centre for Energy Research Institute of Technical Physics and Materials Science, Nanostructures Department, 121 Budapest, Konkoly Thege Miklós út 29-33, Hungary
- 7. Programa de Biología, Facultad de Ciencias Matemáticas y Naturales, Universidad Distrital Francisco José de Caldas, Carrera 4#26D-31, Bogotá, Colombia
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Pyrcz, Tomasz W., Boyer, Pierre, Garlacz, Rafał, Fåhraeus, Christer, Andrade-C, Miguel Gonzalo, Bálint, Zsolt, Mahecha-J, Oscar (2025): Out of the blue: a new blue Lymanopoda butterfly from the páramo of northern Colombia raises questions about disjunct distributions (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae, Satyrinae). Zootaxa 5659 (4): 547-564, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5659.4.5, URL: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5659.4.5
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