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Four-Spotted Sailor (Male)
Dynamine postverta
16.7107, -92.9077
Field Notes
Description:
This butterfly was landing on the other side of a steep ravine and I couldn't get close to it. It was medium sized, metallic silver-blue with dark spots. The underside of the wings was very different (pictures 2 and 3). It kept re-landing on the same leaf and always head down. Family Nymphalidae.
The female is quite different: brown with white lines and spots: See:
http://www.naba.org/chapters/nabast/postverta.html.
Habitat:
Heavy shrubbery along the highway between San Cristobal de Las Casas and Tuxtla Gutierrez, km 11.5, 865 meters.
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Four-spotted Sailor (Dynamine postverta)
Species ID Suggestions
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Spotted for Missions
Photographed
PublishedNovember 5, 2013
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