About Amiga arnaca
Amiga is a monotypic butterfly genus that belongs to the family Nymphalidae. It was first erected by Shinichi Nakahara, Keith R. Willmott and Marianne Espeland in 2019. The only species contained within the genus Amiga is Amiga arnaca, which was previously classified under the genus Chloreuptychia. In 2019, Nakahara and colleagues established this new genus after molecular phylogenetic research found that Amiga arnaca was not closely related to the other species originally placed in Chloreuptychia. Amiga arnaca has a distribution ranging from southern Mexico, through most of Central America and South America, to southern Brazil. It is commonly found in rain forests and cloud forests. The larvae of this butterfly feed on a variety of grasses, including species from the genera Eleusine, Ichnanthus, Lasiacis, Oplismenus, and Paspalum.
