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Lepidigi
Butterflies of Europe and the Tropics
Hedylidae determined as butterflies by DNA in 2011, only 36 species worldwide - are nocturnal, like moths, but the early stages are butterfly-like. Taxonomically they sit between super-family Papilionidae and Hesperiidae

Phellinodes leucophasiata
All these species, Macrosoma until recently, photographed at light, Shima, Peru, 12 May 2014

Phellinodes coscoja

Hedyle heliconiaria

Phellinodes hyacinthina
possibly: markings affected by the MV light?

Phellinodes hyacinthina
some doubt about the id

Phellinodes hyacinthina
?

Phellinodes lucivittata

Phellinodes lucivittata
apparently a somewhat variable species

Phellinodes lucivittata

Phellinodes lucivitatta
possibly

Phellinodes lucivittata
?

Phellinodes cascaria?
don't think so - but what?!

Phellinodes species
two species, still to be identified - is the pointed forewing specimen on the right P leptosiata?
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