Nymphalidae hairy paws - Anteros carausi

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• wishnugaruda (19365)
• [2005-12-20 14:27]
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Hi Ninfa,
from which planet is this "thing" coming?
Can it realy be a butterfly - wow - mother nature is sometimes very creative!
Those colours and the design - this is marvelous. I also love to see how small it is.
Excellent post, something new here on TN, that's fantastic, thank you very much.
Have a good evening, bye bye
Sabine - wishnugaruda

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• Mousehill (754)
• [2005-12-20 15:27]

What a beautifull small butterfly! I've never seen one like this in my life. I'm glad your knuckle is on the photo also to get a sense of it's small size. Great colours on it and super detail. Thanks for this interesting post!

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• annagrace (2996)
• [2005-12-20 17:49]

Excellent detail, well seen!

Alli

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• Freak_Of_Nature (732)
• [2005-12-20 18:33]

ale fajne:)...:D:D:D

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• Merlin (1713)
• [2005-12-20 18:53]
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Ninfa:
What an incredibly exquisite little creature! I am absolutely clueless as to species, but would love to find out more about it. At a guess, it might be an exotic lycaenid. Anyone? Please? Well spotted, and many thanks for showing it to us.
Best wishes, Nigel.

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• jossim (12636)
• [2005-12-20 19:36]

Fantastique prise,la netteté et les couleurs sont excellentes.

Félicitations pour ce merveilleux pett papillon.

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• taba (1847)
• [2005-12-20 19:43]

Hi Ninfa.
What a beautiful kind of butterfly, what impressed me is the dimention of the insect. And you got it well with your hand, that show us the scale of the butterfly.
Great colours, good DOF, POV and sharpness.
Good work.
Taba

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• petrudamsa (2544)
• [2005-12-21 0:21]

Very well caught. Nice colours and sharpness.
As for identification, quite hard, the tropical butterflies are so many that I think there are for sure some species unknown to science. It's sure Lycaenidae, maybe some Strymon cestri local subspecies, maybe something else related.

Regards, Petru

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• crissie78 (399)
• [2005-12-21 4:17]

Wauw!! What a colorfull littl creature!! I never seen anything like it!! The sharpness and detail al very good. Too bad of the finger!
TFS Cris

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• coasties (28054)
• [2005-12-21 4:46]

Hi Ninfa

Wow... this doesn't look real. An amazing piece of nature. Thanks for the introduction.

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• tinman (2663)
• [2005-12-22 9:41]

Lovely photo - clear, charp and interesting note. TFS

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• AnimalExplorer (1997)
• [2005-12-29 13:02]

Very nicely framed of this incredible capture. Well done Ninfa. Hope you have a Happy New Year! :)

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• moemf (703)
• [2006-01-06 11:32]

Hi Nimfa

Incredible creature. I don't think we have them in South Africa. Lovely colourful butterfly and excellent details. Very good capture of such a small animal.

Reinier

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• phlr (2821)
• [2006-01-09 3:40]

Very beautiful specie!
On the top of the finger!
Great composition Ninfa!
TFS!

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• RII (2862)
• [2006-01-10 3:53]

Hola Ninfa.
Muy bonita foto de esta amiga mariposa puludita, bonitos colores y detalles,bonita foto.
Saludos...RICARDO.

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• peter_stoeckl (11530)
• [2006-01-13 8:38]
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Hi, Nimfa,

that funny tiny butterfly on your fingertip belongs to the Nemeobiidae family which is possibly closely related to Lycaenids, and wide spread in the Neotropics.

I think the exact ID is:
"Anteros carausius (Westwood 1851)".
or "Fuzzy-legged Metalmark".

Have a look at: http://www.naba.org/chapters/nabast/Anteros.html
http://www.mariposasmexicanas.com/anteros_carausius.htm

http://www.funet.fi/pub/sci/bio/life/insecta/lepidoptera/ditrysia/papilionoi dea/lycaenidae/riodininae/anteros/

Your picture is much higher in quality than any other picture of that crazy little species in the web. Thank you for that puzzle our friend Nigel (Merlin) has made me aware of.

Best regards,
Peter

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• delfi (106)
• [2006-01-18 15:48]

Hola !

Muy especial !

Saludos cordiales, df

(sorry about my spanish ?)

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• pitai (1212)
• [2006-01-30 16:26]

wow ninfa, que fotos tan estupenda. este macro es increible. que suerte encontrar una mariposa tan amigable. para mi son un dolor de fotografiarlas, siempre a moverse... la comparacion con la punta del dedo nos da una muy buena idea del tamaño. la naturaleza es realmente hermosa.. pena que tengamos zoom en los ojos para apreciarla dia a dia... gracias por compartir!! buen trabajo!

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• chiliu (6526)
• [2006-02-14 3:54]

Hi Ninfa,
Lovely image and very well captured,
brilliant POV and the blue sky background just looks perfect.
Thanks for sharing!

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• fragman (43778)
• [2006-12-13 12:31]

amazing tiny thing, TFS Ori

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• Panthiades (465)
• [2008-09-07 4:53]

Hola Ninfa!!

Gracias por compartir esta maravillosa fotografía.

Si, posiblemente se trata de Anteros carausius. pero no pertenece a la familia Nymphalidae. Este es un RIODINIDAE....esta familia de mariposas se encuentra exclusivamente en el Neotropico desde el sur de Mexico hasta Brasil y esta relacionada con los Lycaenidae.

Saludos Carlos.

Thanks for sharing this beautiful image.

Most probably this speceis is Anteros carausius, but is not a Nymphalid but a RIODINIDAE. The RIODINIDAE are exclusively in the Neotropics from southern Mexico to Brasil and are a family related to Lycaenidae.

CArlos