Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Nymphalidae
Scientific name: Nica flavilla Cantha (Doubleday, 1849)
Habitat: forest edges, clearings, secondary and margins of streams.
Life cycle:
Eggs: white, truncated at the apex, solitary positions in mature leaves.
Larva: head capsule brown with orange areas on the front and sides. Brown spiral horns with thorns. Green body with brown lateral lines lined up a pink line on the back a couple of rosettes of spines per segment. The spines of the thorax are more robust than others. On the back there are three transverse brown stripes.
Pupa: green, dotted with brown.
Host plant: Serjania sp. (Sapindaceae).
Description: Wing Size: 18 to 23 mm. Sexes similar.
Orange forewing with apex dark brown with an orange dot in the center. Hind wing orange, with two black dots.
