Red-bordered Metalmark (Caria ino) Hidalgo County, Texas
The genus Caria is a small, but flamboyant and eye-catching, glittering bunch.
The genus has only 14 species, most of them confined to the Upper Amazon and the foothills of the eastern Andes, with two species in Central America and Mexico. (see my Panama album for a photo of the Brilliant Greenmark (Caria mantinea) that I had the privilege to photograph at a mountain elevation in the Cloud forest).
Only one species, Caria ino (Red-bordered Metalmark) has a range that encompasses the United States and it only resides in a thorn-scrub habitat of the Lower Rio Grande Valley of Texas.
By now you probably wonder about the common name. Why "red"? The answer next time.
Metalmark/Greenmark family (Riodinidae/Riodininae)
Red-bordered Metalmark (Caria ino) Hidalgo County, Texas
The genus Caria is a small, but flamboyant and eye-catching, glittering bunch.
The genus has only 14 species, most of them confined to the Upper Amazon and the foothills of the eastern Andes, with two species in Central America and Mexico. (see my Panama album for a photo of the Brilliant Greenmark (Caria mantinea) that I had the privilege to photograph at a mountain elevation in the Cloud forest).
Only one species, Caria ino (Red-bordered Metalmark) has a range that encompasses the United States and it only resides in a thorn-scrub habitat of the Lower Rio Grande Valley of Texas.
By now you probably wonder about the common name. Why "red"? The answer next time.
Metalmark/Greenmark family (Riodinidae/Riodininae)