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Westwood's Mottled Satyr

Steroma bega

Description:

splash of iridescence on the wings

Habitat:

cloudforest, 2200m

Notes:

I spotted this in Chicaque natural park.

1 Species ID Suggestions

bayucca
bayucca 11 years ago
Westwood's Mottled Satyr
Steroma bega Steroma bega andensis (live adults)


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7 Comments

Nice spotting!

Sckel
Sckel 11 years ago

is strange and beautiful.

Dan Doucette
Dan Doucette 11 years ago

I'll take your word for it bayucca, thanks for another ID. It's cool to know which ones are the tough ones. Thanks Daniel!

bayucca
bayucca 11 years ago

Nymphalidae, Satyrinae, Satyrini, Steroma bega. Tough one!!
You hardly can see any of the typical markings! But they are there, if you look very cearefully you will see them...
Scalloped wings, "bulk" of the hindwing, very tiny triple white spots, darb upwards bow on the hindwing, color shades..., all ther but hidden! ;-)...

Daniel Rowson
Daniel Rowson 11 years ago

The wings look like an oil spill - beautiful!

Dan Doucette
Dan Doucette 11 years ago

Thanks Mona.

Mona Pirih
Mona Pirih 11 years ago

The marking is very interesting.. Like a globe map.

Dan Doucette
Spotted by
Dan Doucette

Cundinamarca, Colombia

Spotted on Nov 25, 2012
Submitted on May 11, 2013

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