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Junonia cf. evarete
The Mangrove Buckeye or West Indian Buckeye (Junonia evarete) is a neotropical nymphalid butterfly found from Florida and the Caribbean, Mexico, Central America, to tropical and subtropical South America.
OK, lowland is now confirmed, then I am happy, as well with the color of the antennae underside. I think we are on the safe side with my suggestion of Junonia cf. evarete, just to indicate the similarity with Genoveva.
Bayucca, I added a photo for purposes of ID - a shot of the underwings. I also noticed that the place was wrong. They were seen in La Cruz, NW Costa Rica on the Nicaraguan border. Sorry. Hope this helps.
I'll add the mating series as a separate spotting when you have checked it. I have other photos if this one doesn't provide what you need.
Thanks...
Oh sorry for that, I read in Wikipedia that 'Junonia coenia'
was found in Central America and till Colombia. Generally I don't rely on wikipedia but I checked other sources and they gave me the species similar to this one plus in PN it has been spotted in Colombia and Brazil if the spottings are corectly ID-ed. Sorry, not trying to make it even worse just trying to learn :).
Tricky one! Coenia is not found in Costa Rica. It is either Junonia evarete or Junonia genoveva. Separation is controversly discussed and many of them are mis-ided. Andrew Nield, one of the experts consideres the color of the underside as the only reliable criteria. In your #3 I see whitish not black color of the underside of the antennae, so my guess would be Junonia evarete. Range is OK, however, the altitude might be conflicting with the lowlands indicated by BOA. That's why I suggest to make a cf. for the ID. If you do not feel comfortable with my suggestion you might take Junonia sp. as scientific and Buckeye Butterfly as common name.
Spotted on Jul 26, 2013
Submitted on Aug 31, 2013
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