Tithorea tarricinia

Nine subspecies from Mexico to Bolivia for Tithorea tarricinia; here are the various phenotypes we collected.

 

Hidalgo, Mexico

 

Puebla, Mexico

 

Chiapas, Mexico

Atitlan volcano, Guatemala

more specimens from Guatemala would be most welcome!

 

Honduras, Atlantic coast

 

centro Costa Rica

 

San Vito, Costa Rica

 

Lago de Fortuna, Chiriquì, Panama

 

Cordillera de Merida, Venezuela

 

Antioquia, Colombia

 

Boyaca, Colombia

 

Cali, Colombia

 

Napo, Ecuador

 

Zamora Chinchipe, Ecuador

 

Huànuco, Peru

 

Junìn, Peru

 

Bolivia

we have no precise location for this butterfly collected on january IIth 1979, but this is the only specimen we know from Bolivia,

 

 

it is funny to see that:

    - the two wide orange lines starting from the base of the FW,

    - and the two black streaks near the apex of the HW,

typical of Mexico populations,

are back on South Peru specimens, when they seem to be totally absent from Central America to Southern Ecuador.

it would  be particularly interesting to have more specimens from Guatemala, Southern Colombia and Northern Peru.