wingspan : 21 mm
Riodinid of the Amazon basin, Echenais thelephus was collected North of el Puente del Pastaza, the female, and the male near Puyo.
males are almost identical all over Ecuador, but it is not the case with the females : light coloured and yellowish West of the Andes, reddish in the Oriente, anf red and black in Amazonia (see individual variation page).
Choco
Oriente
Amazonía
