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Hamadryas guatemalena
Photo take in a jungle path, a common butterfly hard to spot do the color and the camouflage tactics, Crackers are very common in this area. Upperside is mottled brown and white; forewing cell bar with some red; hindwing eyespots have orange scales before the black crescents. Underside of hindwing is white; submarginal eyespots are composed of a brown ring around a black crescent in a white center.
Tropical forest edges, stream valleys, and cutover areas. from Costa Rica north through Central America to Mexico. A rare stray to the lower Rio Grande Valley of South Texas.
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