Colobura dirce, the Dirce Beauty, Small Tort sized....

Two beauties, by name and appearances, both attracted, like many others, to fermented fruit bait kept going by my host in Honduras, Robert Gallardo.They are DGF sized...... Smyrna blomfildia , Blomfild's Beauty... 20 240103 Smyrna blomfildia uns _ EV Honduras _48A2202.jpg and Smyrna karwinskii, Karw...

Dynamine artemisia, the Small-eyed Sailor, is an absolute beauty, as small as a Large Heath Heath, but of a hue I've never encountered in a butterfly elsewhere... a real treat...

Ha ha.. fantastic... thank you

Here ia a Red Rim, Biblis hyperia....

Next up is Consul fabius, the Tiger Leafwing.... I think I remember this from a tea card set in my childhood (????), stirring up a butterfly interest in me...

Common Olivewing, Nessaea aglaura, a really nice Nymphalid, DGF size....

Well, you have seen many species I would also love to see one day. I don't know about you, but with so many tropical possibilities, it seems to be a bit of a lottery as to what you actually do see when in Central America. There are so many I have not yet seen!!!!! Another species.... East Mexican Ba...

Two species of Cracker were present.... Hamadryas laodamia , the Starry Cracker, this one a female.... 7 240103 Hamadryas laodamia ups EV Honduras _48A2545.jpg and Hamadryas iphthime , the Brownish Cracker.... 8 240103 Hamadryas iphthime ups EV Honduras _48A2760.jpg 9 240101 Hamadryas iphthime uns E...

Thank you - there will be more!

Wanted to finally see some 88's and wasn't disappointed.... two species,

Diaethria astala...
and Catagramma tolima...

Time for a few more now, having been off-grid a while.... Nymphalids.... Two species of Adelpha around and about. These were a smaller butterfly species than I expected, being more Tort sized, rather than Admiral sized.... Adelpha paraena ... 3 240103 Adelpha paraena ups _ EV Honduras _48A2237.jpg 2...

That really was it for Lycaenids, and Riodinids were also fairly scanty, despite the promise of many... Here were my best shots... Emesis tristis I think... 231231 Emesis ssp. (_tristis) ups EV Honduras _48A8956-Enhanced-NR.jpg Chimastrum argentea , like some others, would only settle on the inferio...

I agree they are better names!.. Guy, it was wonderful to be able to be solo and entirely selfish for a week in among those exotics. They do a "festival" with a number of visitors going via a wildlife holidays outlet, which is at peak time, but being among a throng of enthusiasts just isn'...

Two grey ones,
Ignata caldas, Caldas Hairstreak..... and Kolana ligurina, Ligurina Hairstreak

Thank you... I really appreciate that. I'm glad you saw a bit of Honduras, Central America seems to be a fantastic place for leps. Costa Rica was superb as well, and much more visitor orientated, Americanized (for better or worse) and adapting for eco-tourism in a very positive way... Here are a cou...

I know you did Just leg pulling... actually, Skippers were by far the greatest in numbers so now things won't go on forever

Very long?, very tedious, very boring, :lol: could be any of them - definitely stringing them out, :D .... here are the last of the skippers anyway, there were more, but mainly LBJs... Calpodes fusta, the Suffused Saliana... 240101 Calpodes fusta _ EV Honduras _48A9267.jpg Calpodes esperi, the Perch...

Don't see many Blue Skippers?.. well here's one....

Pythonides jovianus, the Variable Blue Skipper...

Two more Skippers...

Echelatus (Anastrus) semipternus... Common Anastrus... and Xenophanes tryxus, Glassy-winged Skipper...

Three similar "bentwing" skippers, usually butterfly wings are in a flat plane unless deformed, with these, the wing plane is "bent" normally, and very difficult to get in full focus using DSLR ..... Ebrietas anacreon , Common Bent Skipper .... 240101 Ebrietas anacreon _ EV Hondu...