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| Loja, Ecuador; 7/21/99 (female) | Loja, Ecuador; 7/23/99 (male) |
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| Rio Nieva, Peru ssp nieva (Mohn, 1999) female | Rio Nieva, Peru ssp nieva (Mohn, 1999) male |
Known only from a single locality in eastern Ecuador
at high elevations in the Andes. Extremely local and seasonal in dry scrub
forest. Appears to be related to P ascanius,
though they live in widely separated and different habitats and there is
no logical explaination for any relationship between the two. The pair
below is the recently described subspecies, nieva, from N peru