Forewing: 21-27mm
Proboscis: 28-32mm
Range: Colombia, Ecuador and Peru
This mimic of Mesosemia has a broad white band traversing both the wings. It is paarently quite rare, judging from minimal representation of this species in collections. It is the perfect alignment of pattern elements in adjoining wing cells of this species, which yields a striped wing pattern coordinatied over both the fore- and hindwing. Thus developmentally independent pattern elements can form a well-coordinated overall pattern. This should be considered a special or derived condition, because perfect alignment must be the result of specific selection (Nijout, 1991).
(Hanner 1997)
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