wingspan :
this Eurybia has been pictured in 2014 by Frank Dietze near Puyo and by Dominique Bissonier at Taisha in 2024, it looks like Eurybia unxia, a species known only from Nicaragua to Panama.
when we had only the first picture we didn't manage to agree on this Eurybia identity ; the wisest of us thinks one cannot bet on the presence of unxia near Puyo, thus it has to be a female franciscana quite atypical ; for the other one it has to be a female unxia as the resemblance is uncanny :
- large FW eyespot shaped like stirrups, squarish in franciscana,
- small marginal eyespots on both wings elongated, rounded in franciscana,
- HW purple hue covering only the last three eyespots and barely reaching the cell, when in franciscana the hue covers four eyespots and the distal half of the cell.
this second record strengthens the unxia possibility.
