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Phidias Firetip

Pyrrhopyge phidias

Photo by bayucca
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Field Notes

Description:

Phidias Firetip (Pyrrhopyge phidias), Atenas, Costa Rica

Notes:

Hesperiidae, Pyrrhopyginae

Species ID Suggestions

Comments (3)
YukoChartraw
Gorgeous! If I were to give this moth a nickname, it would be a Queen of the Night from Mozart's Magic Flute. :)
patty
Beautiful butterfly Bayucca! It looks very much like mine: http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/15731339 The book I am using is taking is using the Westwood, 1852 taxa and its says it is a pyrrhopyge charybdis charybdis, which is called "Diablito" here in Uruguay; would you agree? Greetings
Atul
superb pic and spotting !!

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PublishedDecember 30, 2011

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