Buttlerfly

I just noticed that I was talking about butterflies from Chile, when I saw that your beauty is a Tico!!

Wow. Beautiful buttterfly.

I was soo stupid! Hypanartia trimaculata autumna, the Central American type of Hypanartia kefersteini.

If you look at the scalopped/falcated forewings there are indeed some similarities between Hypanartia and Vanessa. And even in within the Hypanartia genus there are different ones with different wing shapes and w/o tails. This ine is definitely a Hypanartia sp. I was obviously a fool about looking for Chile since it is a real Tico one!!

Hypanartia sp., Mapwing. Thought an easy one, but it is definitely not! There are different species around. Chile is not a common covered area in the literature. I have to go a little bit deeper for this one. It looks like Hypanartia kefersteini, which is very common, but usually not so far south. I have some slight doubts it is not Kefersteini. I'll keep an eye on it... Wonderful capture!!

I would look under angle-winged butterflies for the name.

Beautiful! Welcome to Project Noah Sufrostico!

Great Shot!