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Junonia sp.
A very common species in Argentina from October to May. Adult: 57mm, with two apical ocelli, one small and the other bigger, both blacks with a lilac pupil. The posterior wings present two ringed ocelli in ocre and black with a lilac pupil too.
All type of open vegetation included mountainous to 4000m. In Argentina is seen in gardens from Jujuy to Rio Negro Province.
Junonia evarete or Junonia genoveva, both species occur in Argentina.
Spotted on May 18, 2011
Submitted on Sep 18, 2012
7 Comments
My Buckeye is colorful; your Buckeye is psychedelic!
Thank you Walter! Good joke, your Buckeye is absolutely beautiful.
Wow, that's a colorful Buckeye! Makes my sad little Buckeye look very plain!
Thank you Jill!
love the colours
Thank you Alice! This picture had a bad lighting, so I decided darken the corners to stand out the butterfly.
Did you take this a night? beautiful glow.