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This lovely little number is from Ecuador.
I spied it in a collection recently but, it
was not for trade or sale. Have no idea
what genus but, I really thought it was
a great species.

It was about the size of a Speyeria cybele (male)

**Genus correction by Adam
Species identification by livingplanet3

Trehopr1 wrote: Wed Jul 20, 2022 7:03 pm This lovely little number is from Ecuador.
I spied it in a collection recently but, it
was not for trade or sale. Have no idea
what genus but, I really thought it was
a great species.

It was about the size of a Speyeria cybele (male).

Asthenidia buckleyi -

https://www.flickr.com/photos/andreaskay/35154524552

According to Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Therinia
Asthenidia Westwood, 1879 is a junior synonym of Therinia Hübner, [1823].

I guess buckleyi is named after Clarence Buckley who collected for Hewitson and others in the Amazon region. There is some information about him in the ICF here:

https://collector-secret.proboards.com/ ... ors?page=3

Adam.

My many thanks to livingplanet3 and Adam for helping to identify this species for which I had no I.D for....