While ordering my pics , I came upon some old butterfly pics I took with a borrowed camera from my friend , had none of my own at the time :-( . The place is in Itamonte, a mountainous area . They were taken in December 2004, the butterflies were sunning on the warm stony borders of a wild river.
I would love to have their id..
Nr.1:
Nr.2
I cropped out the black butterfly of the same picture. I hope the quality is good enough for an id..
nr.3;
side view of the same with closed wings;
nr.4; the last one..
#1 are Julias,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dryas_julia
#3 Banded Orange Longwings:
http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://k43.pbase.com/g6/18/725418/2/79853945.CVXWlGX6.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.pbase.com/judy_whitton/image/79853945&h=628&w=800&sz=95&hl=en&start=2&um=1&usg=__O7etg7bNczSMKSGrmhVAkTtz9F8=&tbnid=3Rovy11G_6hRLM:&tbnh=112&tbnw=143&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dbanded%2Borange%2Blongwing%2Bbutterfly%26um%3D1%26hl%3Den%26rls%3DDMUS,DMUS:2006-36,DMUS:en%26sa%3DN
This message was edited Oct 6, 2008 4:24 PM
Thank you Fly_girl!
I'll try to check the links tomorrow as my computer is behaving strange and refuses to open them..
Now, it worked! Yes, these are definitely right, thanks!
#4 could be a Tegosa sp.,
http://images.google.co.uk/images?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&q=Tegosa&um=1&sa=N&tab=wi
Found a list of SOME species in Sth America with 3 Tegosa sp., although none of these are mentioned as being in Brazil (see codes at top)
http://www.focusonnature.com/SouthAmericaButterfliesList.htm
This site is good, it has more species mentioned for Brazil including one on the last link, Tegosa claudina which there are a lot of pics of. I can't find pics of the others.
http://www.funet.fi/pub/sci/bio/life/insecta/lepidoptera/ditrysia/papilionoidea/nymphalidae/nymphalinae/tegosa/index.html
This message was edited Oct 7, 2008 6:12 PM
I found pics of Tegosa orobia, as well as T. claudina in Paraguay but hey are in Brazil too. Fig's 4f,g T. orobia.
http://www.faunaparaguay.com/nymphalinae.html
I have found a great site with many thumbnail pics for each Family of butterflies in Central to Sth America!
http://ihc.neotropicalbutterflies.com/Site%20Revision/Pages/Table_of_Contents1bn.html
Now which ones to go to, lol, by clicking one one of these you can then click on the 'thumbnail' link for each section,which brings up a page of thumbnails.
Black-bordered Crescent (Tegosa anieta)
http://ihc.neotropicalbutterflies.com/Site%20Revision/Pages/Nymphalidae_Pages/Nymphalinae/Nymphalinae_Pages/Tegosa_anieta.html
Serpia Crescent (Tegosa serpia)
http://ihc.neotropicalbutterflies.com/Site%20Revision/Pages/Nymphalidae_Pages/Nymphalinae/Nymphalinae_Pages/Tegosa_serpia.html
On this page, not quite a match!
http://ihc.neotropicalbutterflies.com/Site%20Revision/Pages/Nymphalidae_Pages/Nymphalid_Thumbnail_Pages/Nymphalinae_Thumbnails.html#bella
That's a great site indeed!
Thanks so much, yes it's certainly a Tegosa specie!
I think Tegosa anieta (Black-bordered Crescent) is the closest match.. (but my very cropped picture is of a rather poor quality ..)
