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Orange-spotted Tiger Clearwing

Mechanitis polymnia isthmia

Description:

Wing Size: 34 to 38 mm. Sexes similar. Forewing black with yellow stripes. Discal cell in an orange stripe in the circular patch around an orange. Hind wing orange with black distal margin. In the center of the wing a longitudinal strip black in certain individuals may be a stain linear irregular black, situated in the middle area.(Inbio)

Habitat:

Rain Forest

1 Species ID Suggestions

bayucca
bayucca 12 years ago
Polymnia Tigerwing
Mechanitis polymnia isthmia


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5 Comments

Jonathan Sequeira
Jonathan Sequeira 12 years ago

Thanks Bayucca

UmapornSarasat
UmapornSarasat 12 years ago

very beautiful.. :)

Ashish Nimkar
Ashish Nimkar 12 years ago

I like the exposure..cool..!!

p.young713
p.young713 13 years ago

This is very Beautiful!

alicelongmartin
alicelongmartin 13 years ago

Beautiful.

Jonathan Sequeira
Spotted by
Jonathan Sequeira

Heredia, Costa Rica

Spotted on Feb 23, 2010
Submitted on May 3, 2011

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