# Godart's Agrias

*Prepona claudina*

While their upper wings display dazzling, iridescent colors, the undersides are patterned like dead leaves, allowing them to instantly vanish against tree bark when resting.

- **Taxonomy:** Animalia › Arthropoda › Insecta › Lepidoptera › Nymphalidae › Prepona
- **IUCN Red List status:** Least Concern
- **Population trend:** stable
- **Biome:** forest
- **Habitat:** Tropical rainforests, specifically canopy layers and river margins
- **Diet:** Fermenting fruit, tree sap, mineral-rich damp earth, and carrion
- **Range:** Amazon Basin, Atlantic Forest, Andean foothills, Central America
- **Size:** Wingspan of 70 to 90 mm (2.7 to 3.5 inches)
- **Lifespan:** 2 to 4 months as an adult
- **Active:** diurnal
- **Threats:** Deforestation, habitat fragmentation, and localized over-collection for the insect trade
- **Safe to approach?:** Harmless. These butterflies are incredibly fast and usually stay high in the canopy. If one lands on you, it is likely sipping minerals from your sweat; remain still to enjoy the encounter. They do not bite or sting.

## Sources

- Plate: https://gaia-dex.com/species/b632d91b-8e5c-4b34-83c5-e1def07e4bb7
- iNaturalist: https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/900298

- Conservation status: IUCN Red List category, as recorded by Gaia-Dex
- Photo: https://inaturalist-open-data.s3.amazonaws.com/photos/24712145/medium.jpeg (Roger Rittmaster, CC-BY, via iNaturalist)

Habitat, diet, size and similar notes are AI-written summaries; check them against the linked sources before relying on them.