Urania leilus, the green-banded urania, is a day-flying moth of the family Uraniidae, first described by Carl Linnaeus in the 1758 tenth edition of Systema Naturae. It lives in tropical South America east of the Andes, especially in the Amazon rainforest, and its range includes Suriname, Guyana, French Guiana, eastern Colombia, Venezuela, eastern Ecuador, Brazil, northern Bolivia, eastern Peru and the island of Trinidad. It has been recorded as a vagrant on islands of the central and northern Lesser Antilles such as St. Kitts, Barbados and Dominica. Its preferred habitat is riverbanks in primary and secondary rainforest, from sea level to about 800 metres. It is sometimes confused with the similar Urania fulgens, which lives west of the Andes, is slightly smaller and has less white in the tail; the two were once treated as one species and are thought to have separated as the Andes rose. The wingspan is about 70 millimetres, and the larvae feed only on the leaves of the toxic spurge Omphalea.
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Its range includes Suriname, Guyana, French Guiana, eastern Colombia, Venezuela, eastern Ecuador, Brazil, northern Bolivia, eastern Peru, as well as the island of Trinidad.
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Its range includes Suriname, Guyana, French Guiana, eastern Colombia, Venezuela, eastern Ecuador, Brazil, northern Bolivia, eastern Peru, as well as the island of Trinidad.
Also in Geography Atlas: where this subject is found.
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Its range includes Suriname, Guyana, French Guiana, eastern Colombia, Venezuela, eastern Ecuador, Brazil, northern Bolivia, eastern Peru, as well as the island of Trinidad.
Also in Geography Atlas: where this subject is found.
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Its range includes Suriname, Guyana, French Guiana, eastern Colombia, Venezuela, eastern Ecuador, Brazil, northern Bolivia, eastern Peru, as well as the island of Trinidad.
Also in Geography Atlas: where this subject is found.
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Its range includes Suriname, Guyana, French Guiana, eastern Colombia, Venezuela, eastern Ecuador, Brazil, northern Bolivia, eastern Peru, as well as the island of Trinidad.
Also in Geography Atlas: where this subject is found.
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Its range includes Suriname, Guyana, French Guiana, eastern Colombia, Venezuela, eastern Ecuador, Brazil, northern Bolivia, eastern Peru, as well as the island of Trinidad.
Also in Geography Atlas: where this subject is found.
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Its range includes Suriname, Guyana, French Guiana, eastern Colombia, Venezuela, eastern Ecuador, Brazil, northern Bolivia, eastern Peru, as well as the island of Trinidad.
Also in Geography Atlas: where this subject is found.
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Its range includes Suriname, Guyana, French Guiana, eastern Colombia, Venezuela, eastern Ecuador, Brazil, northern Bolivia, eastern Peru, as well as the island of Trinidad.
Also in Geography Atlas: where this subject is found.
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Its range includes Suriname, Guyana, French Guiana, eastern Colombia, Venezuela, eastern Ecuador, Brazil, northern Bolivia, eastern Peru, as well as the island of Trinidad.
Also in Geography Atlas: where this subject is found.
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Its range includes Suriname, Guyana, French Guiana, eastern Colombia, Venezuela, eastern Ecuador, Brazil, northern Bolivia, eastern Peru, as well as the island of Trinidad.
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It is found in tropical South America east of the Andes, especially in the Amazon rainforest.
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is a day-flying moth of the family Uraniidae
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Their preferred habitat consists of riverbanks, in primary and secondary rainforest
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Its range includes Suriname, Guyana, French Guiana, eastern Colombia, Venezuela, eastern Ecuador, Brazil, northern Bolivia, eastern Peru, as well as the island of Trinidad.
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