Dr. Dean Fanara donated 98 Colombian Lepidoptera
Dr. Dean Fanara, a medical entomologist from Elk, Washington,
donated 98 butterflies from the remote jungles of northeast
Colombia that he had collected in 1966. Dr. Fanara had conducted
research on malaria and Chagas disease for the Pan American Health
Organization in the region of Puerto Reyes, in the land of the
Bari people. According to a map recently published by the Colombian expert, Prof. M. Gonzalo Andrade-C., the butterfly
fauna of this region of Colombia is rather unknown. The specimen on
the photograph is a Blue-frosted Banner, Catonephele
numilia (Cramer, 1776) of the family Nymphalidae from Dr.
Fanara's donation.
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