Chocolate Butterfly?

Well, not many butterflies have such creative names! And that is not the name of this very brown (chocolate-looking) butterfly with the scientific name of Vacerra litana and the major butterfly websites using the common name of Litana Skipper while my best butterfly book calls it the Common Therra. It is found throughout Central America into the northern edges of South America as far a Guyana. There are so many brown and brownish Skippers! But this one that I photographed in my garden looks the most like chocolate to me, AND it is another NEW SPECIES FOR ME! Here’s 4 photos of the one in my garden:

Litana Skipper, Atenas, Alajuela, Costa Rica
Litana Skipper, Atenas, Alajuela, Costa Rica
Litana Skipper, Atenas, Alajuela, Costa Rica
Litana Skipper, Atenas, Alajuela, Costa Rica

Not much online about this species. One other person besides me has submitted a photo to butterfliesandmoths.org-litana and three more photos on butterfliesofamerica-litana none of which are an exact match of mine, but close and the best match of all I studied for ID. 🙂

¡Pura Vida!

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