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Matze Stuttgart, Germany Jan 03, 2008

I've seen this butterly in Costa Rica.
Does anyone know what kind of species this is?
It looks similar to "heliconius hecale" but the form of the wings is different...

Thanks,
Matze

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fly_girl The Woodlands, TX(Zone 8b) Jan 03, 2008

Matze, I think it's a Rosita Patch, Chlosyne rosita:

http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.naba.org/chapters/nabast/rpatchmq0906.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.naba.org/chapters/nabast/GalleryVisualKey.html&h=1200&w=1600&sz=742&hl=en&start=5&um=1&tbnid=_YjGQUzQXaYrvM:&tbnh=113&tbnw=150&prev=/images%3Fq%3Drosita%2Bpatch%2Bbutterflies%26svnum%3D10%26um%3D1%26hl%3Den

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kennedyh Churchill, Victoria, Australia(Zone 10a) Jan 04, 2008

Matze,
I agree with fly_girl, that your Costa Rican butterfly is probably the Rosita Patch, Chlosyne rosita.

We have a page for this butterfly in BugFiles here: http://davesgarden.com/guides/bf/go/461/

but we have no images so far and it would be great if you could add your image to that page,

Kennedy

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Matze Stuttgart, Germany Jan 04, 2008

I added the image to the BugFiles.
Thank you for your help!

Matze

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