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| Madre de Dios, Peru; 12/95 ssp chrysoxanthus male | Madre de Dios, Peru; 12/95 ssp chrysoxanthus female |
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| Iquitos, Peru Nov 1995 ssp batesi male | Iquitos, Peru Nov 2008 ssp batesi female |
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| Chontachaca, Cuzco, Peru 800m Dec 1996 ssp. marcapataensis | aberration? [no data] |
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| SW Venezuela ssp motilones (felt by some to be an intergrade with P ascolius as many intermediates occur) | Choco, Columbia; 1980 ssp. ascolius |
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| Tingo Maria, Peru; 5/97 ssp chrysomelas ( close to ssp bacchus) | Rio Napo ssp neyi (most likely a full species - characteristically rounded wings ) |
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| Rio Motura, Amapa Brasil Sept 1967 ssp bedoci | Rondonia Brasil [?] aberration ssp neyi |
Costa Rica (rare) south to Bolivia (transandean) and the western Amazon basin. Flies in rain forest valleys generally. Highly variable, mimicing local Ithomiid models. Several of its "subspecies" are variously treated as full species ( ascolius, neyi, bacchus in particular.) Perhaps the best way to view this group is as the "zagreus complex." Generally not common, and many subspecies are considered rather rare and local.
zagreus group:
zagreus
chrysoxanthus
undescribed
ssp from Cuzco region of Peru
motilones
bacchus group:
bacchus
chrysomelas
ascolius group:
ascolius
zalates
dagauanus
rosenbergi
neyi group:
neyi
bedoci