Symmachia

***Symmachia*** er en slekt av dagsommerfugler som tilhører familien Riodinidae.

## Utseende
Små (vingespenn gjerne ca. 25 millimeter), fargerike sommerfugler, farget i oransje, rødt, svart og blått. Oversiden har gjerne metallisk glans. Undersiden er brunlig. Et påfallende trekk er at forvingens forkant hos mange arter (ikke alle) er bølgete, ikke rett eller jevnt buet som hos de fleste sommerfugler.

## Levevis
Disse sommerfuglene lever i tropisk og subtropisk skog.
Larver har blitt funnet på planteslektene *Miconia* (Melastomataceae) og *Trema* (almefamilien).

## Utbredelse
Slekten er utbredt i Mellom- og Sør-Amerika, fra Mexico i nord til det sørlige Brasil i sør.

## Systematisk inndeling

* Ordenen sommerfugler, Lepidoptera Linnaeus, 1758
** Gruppen Glossata
*** Gruppen Coelolepida
**** Gruppen Myoglossata
***** Gruppen Neolepidoptera
****** Gruppen Heteroneura
******* Gruppen Eulepidoptera
******** Gruppen Ditrysia
********* Gruppen Apoditrysia
********** Gruppen storsommerfugler, Macrolepidoptera
*********** Gruppen dagsommerfugler, Rhopalocera
************ Overfamilien egentlige dagsommerfugler, Papilionoidea
************* Familien Riodinidae – ca. 1500 arter, noen ganger regnet til Lycaenidae
************** Underfamilien Riodininae 
*************** stammen Symmachiini 
**************** Slekten ***Symmachia*** Hübner, 1819
***************** *[[Symmachia accusatrix]]* Westwood, 1851
***************** *[[Symmachia aconia]]* Hewitson, 1876
***************** *[[Symmachia almeidai]]* (Zikán, J, 1946)
***************** *[[Symmachia arcuata]]* Hewitson, 1867
***************** *[[Symmachia arion]]* (Felder, C & R. Felder, 1865)
***************** *[[Symmachia aurigera]]* (Weeks, 1902)
***************** *[[Symmachia basilissa]]* (Bates, H, 1868)
***************** *[[Symmachia batesi]]* (Staudinger, 1887)
***************** *[[Symmachia busbyi]]* Hall, J & Willmott, 2007
***************** *[[Symmachia calderoni]]* Hall, J & Lamas, 2001
***************** *[[Symmachia calligrapha]]* Hewitson, 1867
***************** *[[Symmachia calliste]]* Hewitson, 1867
***************** *[[Symmachia elinas]]* (Rebillard, 1958)
***************** *[[Symmachia emeralda]]* Hall, J & Willmott, 2007
***************** *[[Symmachia eraste]]* (Bates, H, 1868)
***************** *[[Symmachia exigua]]* (Bates, H, 1868)
***************** *[[Symmachia falcistriga]]* Stichel, 1910
***************** *[[Symmachia fassli]]* Hall, J & Willmott, 1995
***************** *[[Symmachia fulvicauda]]* Stichel, 1924
***************** *[[Symmachia hazelana]]* Hall, J & Willmott, 1996
***************** *[[Symmachia hetaerina]]* Hewitson, 1867
***************** *[[Symmachia hippea]]* Herrich-Schäffer, 1853
***************** *[[Symmachia hippodice]]* Godman, 1903
***************** *[[Symmachia hypochloris]]* (Bates, H, 1868)
***************** *[[Symmachia jugurtha]]* Staudinger, 1887
***************** *[[Symmachia juratrix]]* Westwood, 1851
***************** *[[Symmachia leena]]* Hewitson, 1870
***************** *[[Symmachia leopardinum]]* (Felder, C & R. Felder, 1865)
***************** *[[Symmachia maeonius]]* Staudinger, 1888
***************** *[[Symmachia menetas]]* (Drury, 1782)
***************** *[[Symmachia mielkei]]* (Hall, J & Furtado, 1999)
***************** *[[Symmachia miron]]* Grose-Smith, 1898
***************** *[[Symmachia multesima]]* Stichel, 1910
***************** *[[Symmachia nemesis]]* Le Cerf, 1958
***************** *[[Symmachia norina]]* Hewitson, 1867
***************** *[[Symmachia pardalia]]* Stichel, 1924
***************** *[[Symmachia pardalis]]* Hewitson, 1867
***************** *[[Symmachia pena]]* Hall, J & Lamas, 2007
***************** *[[Symmachia phaedra]]* (Bates, H, 1868)
***************** *[[Symmachia praxila]]* Westwood, 1851
***************** *[[Symmachia probetor]]* (Stoll, 1782)
***************** *[[Symmachia rita]]* Staudinger, 1887
***************** *[[Symmachia rubina]]* Bates, H, 1866
***************** *[[Symmachia rubrica]]* (Stichel, 1929)
***************** *[[Symmachia satana]]* Hall, J & Harvey, 2007
***************** *[[Symmachia sepyra]]* (Hewitson, 1877)
***************** *[[Symmachia splendida]]* (Salazar & Constantino, 1993)
***************** *[[Symmachia stigmosissima]]* Stichel, 1910
***************** *[[Symmachia suevia]]* Hewitson, 1877
***************** *[[Symmachia technema]]* Stichel, 1910
***************** *[[Symmachia threissa]]* Hewitson, 1870
***************** *[[Symmachia tigrina]]* Hewitson, 1867
***************** *[[Symmachia titiana]]* Hewitson, 1870
***************** *[[Symmachia triangularis]]* (Thieme, 1907)
***************** *[[Symmachia tricolor]]* Hewitson, 1867
***************** *[[Symmachia virgatula]]* Stichel, 1910
***************** *[[Symmachia virgaurea]]* Stichel, 1910
***************** *[[Symmachia xypete]]* (Hewitson, 1870)

## Kilder
* Brower, A.V.Z. (2011) *Symmachia* på *Tree of life* http://tolweb.org/Symmachia/105309
* Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and some other life forms: Sjekkliste over artene. Hentet 1.2. 2012.

## Eksterne lenker
* 
* Butterflies of America – *Symmachia probetor* http://butterfliesofamerica.com/symmachia_probetor_championi.htm 
* Butterflies of America – *Symmachia tricolor* http://butterfliesofamerica.com/symmachia_triclor.htm 
* Parque Nacional Sangay - *Symmachia suevia* http://www.sangay.eu/ficha-principale.php?ref=1414&lang=en