COMPARATIVE GALLERY: SUBFAMILY NYMPHALINAE - BRUSHFOOT BUTTERFLIES
Nymphalid butterflies have the forelegs much reduced so that they appear to have only four legs. They are worldwide in distribution and the group includes some of the most familiar and evocatively-named species such as Painted Ladies, Peacocks and Admirals. Most Nymphalinae butterflies pose with wings open, though some perch with wings closed.
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Gallery 4  Tribe Nymphalini: Colobura, Hypanartia and Smyrna
FIGURE 4a - Zebra Butterfly Colobura dirce - IBIS Collection, Pilar, Departamento Ñeembucú (Paul Smith September 2007).
FIGURE 4b - Beautiful Mapwing Hypanartia bella - Encarnación, Departamento Itapúa (Paul Smith May 2007).
FIGURE 4c - Orange Mapwing Hypanartia lethe - PROCOSARA, PN San Rafael (Paul Smith March 2007).
FIGURE 4d - Blomfild´s Beauty Smyrna blomfildia - PROCOSARA, PN San Rafael (Paul Smith March 2007).
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Gallery 5  Tribe Victorinini: Anartia and Siproeta
FIGURE 5a - Scarlet Peacock Anartia amathea - PROCOSARA, PN San Rafael (Paul Smith March 2007).
FIGURE 5b - White Peacock Anartia jatrophae - PROCOSARA, PN San Rafael (Paul Smith March 2007).
FIGURE 5c - Trayja Page Siproeta epaphus male - Hotel Tirol, Departamento Itapúa (Regis Nossent July 2005).
FIGURE 5d - Malachite Page Siproeta stelenes - Hotel Tirol, Departamento Itapúa (Regis Nossent July 2005).
Thanks to Ezequiel Nuñez-Bustos for assistance with butterfly identification.
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Photographs on this page were taken by Paul Smith, Regis Nossent, Sergio Rios and Martijn Brouwer and are used with their permission.
Special thanks to Ulf Drechsel for permission to use images from his site www.pybio.org.
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Gallery 1 - Tribe Coenini: Historis, Tribe Junoniini Junonia
FIGURE 1a - Historis odius - IBIS Collection, University of Pilar, Departamento Ñeembucú (Paul Smith September 2007).
FIGURE 1b - Tropical Buckeye Junonia genoveva - Fería Muncipal, Encarnación, Departamento Itapúa (Paul Smith April 2007).
FIGURE 1c - Tropical Buckeye Junonia genoveva reddish variant - PROCOSARA, PN San Rafael (Martijn Brouwer May 2007).
Gallery 2 - Tribe Melitaeini: Chlosyne, Eresia, Ortilia, Phyciodina and Phystis
FIGURE 2a - Bordered Patch Chlosyne lacinia - upper photo Arroyo Mboi Kae, Departamento Itapúa (Regis Nossent July 2005), lower PROCOSARA, PN San Rafael (Paul Smith March 2007).
FIGURE 2b - Lansdorf´s False Erato Eresia lansdorfii - upper Hotel Tirol, Departamento Itapúa (Regis Nossent July 2005), lower Encarnación, Departamento Itapúa (Paul Smith June 2007).
Eresia lansdorfii is a mimic of the larger Heliconiid Crimson-patched Longwing Heliconius erato.
FIGURE 2c - Ortilia ithra - Encarnación, Departamento Itapúa (Paul Smith May 2007).
FIGURE 2d - Dicoma Crescent Phyciodina dicoma - Hotel Tirol, Departamento Itapúa (Paul Smith May 2007).
FIGURE 2e - Phyciodina orthia - Estancia Laguna Blanca, Departamento San Pedro (Paul Smith October 2008).
FIGURE 2f - Burnished Brown Phyciodina velica dunfordi variations showing extremes of reddish colouration - PROCOSARA, PN San Rafael (upper Paul Smith June 2007, lower Martijn Brouwer May 2007).
FIGURE 2g - Phystis simois - location unknown (Ulf Drechsel www.pybio.org).
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Gallery 3 - Tribe Melitaeini: Anthanassa, Eresia and Tegosa, Tribe Nymphalini: Vanessa
FIGURE 3a - Spotted Cresecent Anthanassa frisia - Encarnación, Departamento Itapúa (Paul Smith April 2009).
FIGURE 3b - Claudina´s Crescent Tegosa claudina - PROCOSARA, PN San Rafael (Paul Smith March 2007).
FIGURE 3c - Incense Crescent Tegosa orobia - Encarnación, Departamento Itapúa (Paul Smith June 2007).
FIGURE 3d - Double-eyed Painted Lady Vanessa braziliensis - Encarnación, Departamento Itapúa (Paul Smith May 2007).
FIGURE 3e - Four-eyed Painted Lady Vanessa carye - Asunción, Departamento Central (Sergio Rios September 2009).
FIGURE 3f - Banded Lady Vanessa myrinna - Estancia Laguna Blanca, Departamento San Pedro (Paul Smith November 2005).