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Hesperioidea e Papilionoidea (Lepidoptera) coligidos em expedi??o aos Rios Nhamundá e Abacaxis, Amazonas, Brasil: novos subsídios para o conhecimento da biodiversidade da Amaz?nia BrasileiraDOI: 10.1590/S0085-56262012005000012 Keywords: brazilian amazon, butterflies, distribution, endemism areas. Abstract: hesperioidea and papilionoidea (lepidoptera) collected in an expedition to the nhamundá and abacaxis rivers, amazonas, brazil: new insights for understanding the biodiversity of the brazilian amazon. aiming at improving the knowledge of the diurnal lepidopterofauna of the amazon rainforest, this study lists 180 taxa collected at five different points along two tributaries of the amazon river, including the guyana and rondonia areas of endemism. the different localities were compared using non-metric multidimensional scaling analysis (nmds).
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