Thanks to Ezequiel Nuñez-Bustos for helping to identify the species in this gallery.
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Gallery 1 - Tribe  Mesosemiini
FIGURE 1a - Little Zebra Leucochimona matatha - Hotel Tirol, Departamento Itapúa (Paul Smith September 2007).
FIGURE 1b - Eyed False-Satyr Mesosemia odice - Hotel Tirol, Departamento Itapúa (Paul Smith September 2007).


RIODINIDAE - METALMARKS
The common name refers to the metallic markings on the wings, many of the species in this subfamily are brownish in colouration with intricate patterning. They have a habit of perching on the underside of leaves with the wings held flat.
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Gallery 3 - Tribes Emesidini, Lemoniini and Nymphidini
FIGURE 3a - Reddish Acrobat Emesis diogenia (Tribe Emesidini) - PROCOSARA, PN San Rafael (Paul Smith March 2007 - ECOSARA Biodiversity Database).
FIGURE 3b - Reddish Acrobat Emesis diogenia (Tribe Emesidini) - Hotel Tirol, Departamento Itapúa (Paul Smith September 2007).
FIGURE 3c - Emesis mandana (Tribe Emesidini) - Estancia Kanguery, PN San Rafael (Paul Smith November 2007 - ECOSARA Biodiversity Database).
FIGURE 3d - Synargis calyce (Tribe Lemoniini) - Encarnación, Departamento Itapúa (Paul Smith May 2007).
FIGURE 3e- Synargis calyce (Tribe Lemoniini) - Encarnación, Departamento Itapúa (Paul Smith July 2007).
FIGURE 3f - Brown-cornered Tiny Adelotypa bolena (Tribe Nymphidini) - Hotel Tirol, Departamento Itapúa (Paul Smith September 2007).
FIGURE 3g - Aricoris sp. (Tribe Nymphidini) - PN Tte Enciso, Departamento Boquerón (Paul Smith October 2008).
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Gallery 2 - Tribe Riodinini
FIGURE 2a - Tailed Dancer Barbicornis basilis - PROCOSARA, PN San Rafael (upper Alberto Esquivel March 2008, lower Paul Smith November 2007 - ECOSARA Biodiversity Database).
FIGURE 2b - Caria marsyas - PROCOSARA, PN San Rafael (upper Pier Cacciali April 2008, lower Paul Smith May 2008 - ECOSARA Biodiversity Database).
FIGURE 2c - Charis anius - PROCOSARA, PN San Rafael (Ivan Saxby March 2008 - ECOSARA Biodiversity Database)
FIGURE 2d - Black-patched Blue-Metalmark Lasaia agesilas - PROCOSARA, PN San Rafael (upper Paul Smith, lower Alberto Esquivel February 2008 - ECOSARA Biodiversity Database).
FIGURE 2e - White-patched Mulatto Melanis aegates - Estancia Laguna Blanca, Departamento San Pedro (Paul Smith October 2008).
FIGURE 2f - Notheme erota - PROCOSARA, PN San Rafael (David Gill February 2008 - ECOSARA Biodiversity Database)
FIGURE 2g - Little Dancer Riodina lysippoides - Encarnación, Departamento Itapúa (Paul Smith August 2007).
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