Yellow-spiked satyr

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Identification: The wings are dark brown on the upperside with a subapical and outer postdiscal band containing four faint black spots. The hindwings are scalloped at the termen. The underside of the wings is brown with a mauve tint at the apex and subapex on the forewings and from mid to dorsum on the hindwings. The hindwings have a distinctive central yellow streak running from the base to the outer postdiscal region. The region above this streak is dark brown, excepting the base and a mauve-tinted band which is part of a broader mauve-tinted band in the outer postdiscal and subapicalregions of the hindwings. The band has dark brown wavy outline and two black ocelli, each with a thin yellow outline. There is also a faint black apical ocellus with yellow outline in the dark brown region of the hindwings, on the outer side of the mauve-tinted band. The forewings have a similar mauve-tinted band with wavy dark brown outline in the outer postdiscal and subapical regions, containing five small black ocelli, each with a thin yellow outline. Females do not have a mauve tint on the underside.

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Reported from: Friendship (Region 4), Brotherson & Sandaka (Region 6), Iwokrama Forest & Turtle Mt. (Region 8), Burro Burro, Simon and Shock International Logging Inc. concession & Surama Eco-Lodge (Region 9)