Borboleta branca com final das asas de cor marrom e detalhes em laranja. Ela está pousada em uma flor amarela de vedélia.

🥰Borboleta Nymphidium caricae ❤️

#Riodinidae

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#lepidoptera #Riodinidae #butterfly #butterflies #insects #insetos #borboletas #borboleta #entomology #entomologia

Common scarlet eye skipper resting vertically on a forest leaf. Its orange brown forewings are decorated with small, polygonal opaque windows, while nearer to the thorax it wears a mane of longer orange brown scaly hairs. The species is Nascus phocus.

A brown skipper with a splashes of white speckles on the upper side of its wings resting on the frond-like leaves of a rainforest plant. Species is Bungalotis erythus.

Light brown rainforest skipper alert and upright on a leaf. Its light-brown wings sport a trio of small opaque windows and a few dark spots. The dark red eye is crossed by a slash of dark brown that also rips into the underside of the thorax. Species is Carystoides basoches

This not a skipper but a stunning blue metalmark butterfly resting on a green leaf whose electric blue upper wings have brilliant red-orange accents within the dark posterior border of hindwing. The species is the Periander metalmark, Rhetus periander.

Super Skipper Sunday. …And there are always tropical #skippers (#Hesperiidae)! Plus a sort of skipper-like #Rhetus #metalmark with a long tail #Butterfly #Lepidoptera #Ecuador #Insect #Riodinidae (2/2)

Fuzzy white butterfly with green eyes and dark tarsi resting on a leaf, it has dark spots on the undersides of the wings accented with green and silver metal scales.

Fuzzy white butterfly with green eyes and dark tarsi resting on a leaf, it has red polygons scattered on the undersides of its wings that are accented with green and silver metal scales. The color scheme of this jewelmark reminds me of Christmas decorations.

“Bedazzled Jewels” The #metalmark butterflies (Fam. #Riodinidae) include many stunning species w/ diverse forms. In this group are the #Helicopiini, which are furry & often adorned w/ metallic scales. Here are Elegant #Jewelmark, #Anteros allectus, & Black-bellied Jewelmark, A. formosus. #Ecuador

Vivid dark blue metalmark butterfly with a uniform spray of light-blue/green rays radiating from the dark middle of each wing. Some pink dots and accents are visible near the thorax.

Man with glasses in gray-green shirt standing at the edge of forest road with a camera around his neck. A blue-rayed metalmark butterfly is resting on the tip of the fingers on his raised right hand.

Another stunner! #Lyropteryx apollonia, the #Apollo #metalmark or blue-rayed metalmark #Riodinidae is a rare #butterfly species found in tropical #rainforests of South America, at an elevation of about 200–600 m (660–1,970 ft). To my delight, on occasion they allowed handling. #Ecuador

Emperor butterfly, Doxocopa linda, family Nymphalidae, brown body and wings with a wide diagonal white bar topped with an orange polygon. Wings also have alternating narrow brown and tan lines along the trailing wing margins. A very fresh and vibrant specimen!

Brown skipper with two black spots, one on each brown and tan mottled wing with two white dots. Species is Cyclosemia anastomosis, #family hesperiidae

Gorgeous metalmark butterfly. Brown wings with blue tint along the wing margins and bold bars of vibrant, almost glowing, red. running front-to-back and two shorter bars crossing perendicular to the long bars on the hindwings. Species is Ancyluris etias etias, Family Riodinidae

Overhead view of a large katydid nymph with visible wingpads, pink eyes, with antennae folded back over the dorsum

…and a few more ! An #Emperor #butterfly, #Doxocopa linda, #Nymphalidae; a #skipper with eyespots, #Cyclosemia anastomosis, #Hesperiidae; gorgeous #metalmark, #Ancyluris etias etias, #Riodinidae, & a palette-cleansing close-up of a chunky #katydid nymph. Photographed w/in 1 hour.

A #skipper: #Aethilla echina echina, #Hesperiidae with brown markings the make the insect look like its wings ungulate

A brown Metalmark butterfly Napaea beltiana, Family Riodinidae, perching head down with while spots on the wings. A concentration of white spots on the rear wings may resemble splotch of white bird droppings in the right light.

The starry night butterfly - velvet black wings with specks of white radiating out like stars. A metalmark butterfly.

Pair of mating Satyr butterflies, tan with darker brown transverse lines and a line of black-filled and unfilled spots ringed in yellow. Species is Taygetina gulnare, family Nymphalidae

#Butterflies from the #IKIAM University track near Muyuna, Napo, #Ecuador at 620m elevation. A #skipper: #Aethilla echina echina, #Hesperiidae; A #metalmark: #Napaea beltiana, #Riodinidae; Starry sky metalmark: #Calydna punctata, & some mating #Satyrs: #Taygetina gulnare, #Nymphalidae.

Image of Rhetus periander, a brilliant blue, black and red butterfly commonly known as the Periander metalmark on a leaf in a tropical forest outside of Tena Ecuador. Photo taken on 23 October 2024.

Hello Bluesky!

I'll see your generic blue butterfly and raise you an amazing #blue #metalmark #butterfly, #Rhetus periander, from #Ecuador. Blue is an uncommon color in nature; plants lack truly blue pigments. Most butterflies "make" blue via diffraction due to wing scale shapes. #Riodinidae