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Dynamine gisella
Dynamine gisella, commonly known as the Gisella sailor, is a small, strikingly colorful species of brush-footed butterfly native to South America. First described by William Chapman Hewitson in 1857, this insect belongs to the genus Dynamine, a group celebrated for the metallic, radiant coloration of its male specimens.
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 890713.