Dramatic butterfly with white-borderd deep blue wings, clubbed antennae, and a head with a red topknot to match the tip-of-the-tail which looks like it was dipped in red paint. Genus Pyrropyge (phidias group) Hesperiidae

A generally orange-bodied, red ruby-eyed skipper whose wings and thorax are flecked with green, sky blue, red, orange and white. It rests alertly on green forest leaf. The species is Thracides cleanthes telmela, in the family Hesperiidae.

Euselasia orba spectralis is a metalmark butterfly (Family Riodinidae) with deep blue coloration on the upperwings (which are mostly hidden) and an underside with a bold pattern of blue oval spots ringed with tan and layered in a blue matrix that is held in place by light blue and deep red transverse bands arising from a bold smear of pink along the inner edge that lightens or darkens depending on the angle of viewing.

Euselasia orba spectralis is a metalmark butterfly (Family Riodinidae) with deep blue coloration on the upperwings (which are mostly hidden) and an underside with a bold pattern of blue oval spots ringed with tan and layered in a blue matrix that is held in place by light blue and deep red transverse bands arising from a bold smear of pink along the inner edge that lightens or darkens depending on the angle of viewing - See, this one is more intense than the other!

Who’d put such designs on #butterflies? Along the #Apuya Tract (#Napo #Ecuador), my humble expectations for sensible #Lepidopteran coloration were shattered again & again. Little brown jobs just won’t do – a given for #metalmarks, but true here even for #skippers!