Purple-shot Copper; Manto púrpura

Description:

Very nice and rather large copper. It can appear like a small bright fritillary in flight. The alciphron male has a violet suffusion all over the upperside, giving the species its name. The coloring of the males and the females is very different, i.e. the sexual dimorphism is very strong. The female alciphron is basically dark brown with the usual female copper upper forewing black markings in the cell and post-discal areas with distinctive upper hindwing orange marginal lunules. Females have a more curved shape of the hindwing base (as compared to the slightly square shape of the male).

Habitat:

Pine tree forest. Mountain above 1000 m high. Parque Nacional de Sierra de Guadarrama

Notes:

Camera Model: NIKON D300. Exposure Time: 1/500 sec.; f/11; ISO Speed Rating: 800. Exposure Bias: 0 EV. Focal Length: 300.0 mm. No Flash fired