White-cheeked scarlet-eye

Wing span:

Identification: Males have bright orange forewings that have a light black pattern resembling a magnifying hand lens, and the underside of the hindwings have two light black bands with the outer band being continuous and the inner band being broken (almost absent from the upperside; appear as four light black spots). Females are brown with a central slanted white band on the forewings and a series of eight to nine light brown spots on the underside of the hindwings.

Variation:

Behaviour:

Habitat:

Larval food plantSenna papillosa, Uncaria tomentosa, Gliricidia sepium (Warren et al., 2013)

Adult food:

Reported from: Demerara (Region 4), Tumatumari (Region 8), Mackenzie (Region 10)