Nymphalidae, Peru, Tingo Maria

[wolf]

Some different nymphalids. I'm not sure if the first 3 are the same sp? but atleast the first one seems different to me becus of the blue sheen, which the other two specimens dont have. ID would be appriciated!

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5. Adelpha sp? but which one!?

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[thanos]

Number 5 is a male of Adelpha boeotia boeotia Felder & Felder, 1867 .

Will tell soon for the others.

[thanos]

Number 4 is a male Pyrrhogyra. It looks to be Pyrrhogyra amphiro Bates, 1865 .

Numbers 1,2 and 3 are Diaethria . Will tell soon about the species.

[thanos]

I think that numbers 1 and 2 are Diaethria neglecta Salvin, 1869 , while number 3 is Diaethria clymena Cramer, 1775 .

[thanos]

A better proposition for number 1 : Diaethria eluina lidwina Felder & Felder, 1862 : because of the strong blue sheen on uppersides, the width/shape of the light blue bands on the uppersides of forewings, the fact that the light blue submarginal patches on upperside hindwings are not interrupted by thin curved black line (unlike it happens with number 2 specimen/neglecta), and cause all the black lines on the undersides of hindwings of this specimen(number 1) are thicker than in neglecta and have the right thickness for eluina lidwina. I thouht firstly that this specimen was neglecta, cause neglecta has almost always '89-like' pattern on underside hindwing (eluina can have '88' or '89').

So,most possibly,you have got 3 different species of Diaethria here .

I'm almost sure that these ID's are correct, after examining carefully each of these three Diaethria specimens,and checking the distribution of the species.

Thanos

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Thanks