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White-spotted Satyr
Manataria hercyna maculata
16.7353, -92.6407
Field Notes
Description:
This butterfly is a deep shade species and flies at dusk, as well as around lights at night like a moth. It is large and cryptically colored on the hind wings for landing on tree trunks in dark places. It blends really well with bark-moss-lichen mixtures. This butterfly tends to cluster in large numbers during the day in deep shade (see this spotting for top views and clustering behavior:
http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/123316081/fullscreen).
Family Satyridae.
Habitat:
Forest, about 5 km up Mt. Huitepec, west of San Cristobal de Las Casas, Chiapas, Mexico.
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