Clearwing Butterfly from Guyana

bugman

February 10th, 2011 at 1:43 am

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Butterfly
Location: Guyana, Northwest Interior near Mathew’s Ridge
February 9, 2011 5:10 pm
This butterfly caught my eye in in some pristine rainforest near Matthew’s Ridge, Guyana. It was flying and resting about three feet off the ground. The wingspan was about four inches.
Signature: G. Fischer

Clearwing Butterfly

Dear G. Fischer,
This lovely Clearwing Brushfooted Butterfly in the subfamily Satyrinae might be Pseudohaeterea hypaesia based on a photo posted on TrekNature. Your lovely individual has obviously never needed its ocula (we hope that is the correct biological name for a false eyespot) as a defense mechanism. Research provided the proper name for a false eyespot, and it is ocellus. We also found this little ethereal beauty on the Haeterini (must be the tribe) images website.

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Peter B-J wrote:
Dear G Fischer and webmaster,
No, this is not Pseudohaetera hypaesia (that has much bolder and brown rather than black submarginal hindwing markings). It is a species of Cithaerias, probably Cithaerias andromeda, also known as C. philis.
Peter Bruce-Jones
Posted 13 Feb 2011 at 1:20 pm ¶
bugman wrote:
We wish you had provided links for this correction.
Posted 13 Feb 2011 at 10:22 pm ¶
Peter B-J wrote:
Many of the quality references I use for butterflies are books and not web-based. However, for Cithaerias philis see: http://www.flickr.com/photos/83287919@N00/3639415743/, and for both another form of C. andromeda and Pseudohaetera hypaesia go to http://www.neotropicalbutterflies.com/Site Revision/Pages/FamilyLists/NymphalidSubFamilyListBN/Satyrinae_Satyrs.html#haeterini. I hope this helps.
Best regards,
Peter
Posted 14 Feb 2011 at 3:56 pm ¶
bugman wrote:
thanks for the update.
Posted 15 Feb 2011 at 9:02 am ¶