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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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