wingspan : male 33/37, female 38/39 mm
Euptychoides griphe, Machines, Gualchan, las Juntas (Carchi), Buenos Aires (Imbabura), Mindo.
this modest butterfly benefited from the descriptors full attention, being given these successive names : Neonympha griphe, Euptychia vesta, Euptychoides vesta, Euptychoides griphe, Cissia ucumariensis, and today Graphita griphe. Five different Genuses !
in spite of this ongoing attention we were not able to find any work assesing wether the - visible - differences between the populations East and West of the Andes are constant or not ? and yes they are (see new facts page).
there are several constant differences between Graphita griphe populations East and West of the Andes.
the three most obvious are :
- the ground colour,
- on the HWUP presence of an eye-spot at the tornus, East of the Andes, always absent West of the Andes,
- on the FWUN presence of dark markings in the lighter postdical band, East of the Andes, always absent West of the Andes.
