Many-banded Daggerwing (Marpesia chiron)
There is a 9 km long trail (Poco Preto trail) from the main road that leads to the Iguaçu river, and for me it was…
Epinome Cracker (Hamadryas epinome)
Epinome cracker (Hamadryas epinome) is the second member of the Hamadryas genus I saw here in Iguaçu National Park.…
Candrena Eighty-eight (Diaethria candrena)
Candrena Eighty-eight (Diaethria candrena) is yet another of the numberwings sucking human salt off the railings…
Red Cracker (Hamadryas amphinome)
Alongside the trails leading down to the Devil's Throat of Iguaçu Falls I saw several species of butterflies I have not…
Hydaspes Eighty-eight (Callicore hydaspes)
When you first see a numberwing butterfly or eighty-eights, you are oblivious to the intricacies of the way the number…
Hydaspes Eighty-eight (Callicore hydaspes)
This hydaspes eighty-eight (Callicore hydaspes) is the third of the numberwings I observed around Iguaçu Falls on the…
Scarlet Peacock (Anartia amathea)
Scarlet Peacock (Anartia amathea) was the only butterfly species I encountered here, and only in the open fields of the…
Linda’s Emperor (Doxocopa linda)
This is from the airstrip in Florida, and being next to Noel Kempff Mercado National Park there are so many different…
Agathina Emperor (Doxocopa agathina)
Agathina Emperor (Doxocopa agathina) is a beautiful butterfly I also saw in Bolivian Amazon. The blue is changing with…
Mesentina Sister (Adelpha mesentina)
The diversity of butterflies here is staggering, and only when I got home did I see that what I briefly in the field…
Amazon Cracker (Hamadryas chlöe)
A very short encounter with the Amazon cracker (Hamadryas chlöe) while my guides used chainsaws to clear fallen trees…
Mesentina Sister (Adelpha mesentina)
Identifying the Adelphas is not easy, and in Noel Kempff Mercado National Park they are so plentiful that your…