Gilbert's Flasher (Telegonus alector)

Fazenda Grotão - DF, Brazil.

 

Resting on a leaf, quietly showing off its subtle metallic-blue iridescence.

 

Even in stillness, these butterflies can surprise you with flashes of hidden color.

 

Kingdom: Animalia

Phylum: Arthropoda

Class: Insecta

Order: Lepidoptera

Superfamily: Papilionoidea

Family: Hesperiidae

Subfamily: Eudaminae

Tribe: Eudamini

Subtribe: Eudamina

Genus: Telegonus Hübner, [1819]

Species: T. alector Felder, C. & R. Felder, [1867]

Binomial name: Telegonus alector

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