Butterflies photographed in Ecuador on the east slope of the Andes

Butterflies photographed in Ecuador on the east slope of the Andes, FEB 2005. Nearly all telephoto shots, with not many chances to use the macro lens.
Locations: Cabanas San Isidro, Napo Province, ~ 7000 feet. Loreto road, Napo Province, ~ 4000 feet
All identifications are very tentative, based on mostly Butterflies of the Neotropical Region, Butterflies of South America, and Butterflies of the World, by Bernard d'Abrera
Family Pieridae
Leodonta dysoni ?
..Leptophobia smithi ?
Family Nymphalidae, Subfamily Ithomiinae
Ithomiinae species 1 ?	*Ithomiinae species 2 ?*
Family Nymphalidae, Subfamily Heliconiinae
*Podotricha telesiphe*, a mimic of the species below.
*Heliconius telesiphe*
Family Nymphalidae, Subfamily Brassolinae
Eryphanis aesacus At 7000 feet elevation! A male, with upper surface deep rich purple.
Family Nymphalidae, Subfamily Nymphalinae
*Eresia selene*	*Historis odius*, The Orion.
*Marpesia coresia*
.... may be Perisama oppelii
may be Diaethria eluina	may be Diaethria neglecta
Callicore tolima
*Adelpha saundersii*
Siproeta elissa
*Hypanartia kefersteinii*
*Anartia amathea*
Family Nymphalidae, Subfamily Satyrinae These species were abundant around Chusquea bamboo
*Euptychia ashna ?*
*Steremnia pronophila ?*
*Zaburnia zigomala*
Lymanopoda obsoleta
*Corades ulema*
*Pedaliodes pheres ?*
*Eretris porphyria ?* Showing more yellow than in the references
Family Riodinidae
may be *Necyria sp.*
....Rhetus dysonii ? Tails broader, and more tipped with white, than in the references.
Family Lycaenidae
Johnsonita auda ? Tails longer than in the references.
*Arawacus aetolus* The fine tails quiver in the breeze, like waving antennae. Combined with the black and white spotted false body, this makes the creature appear to have its head located at the right end of the photo. It was not until it started walking LEFT that I noticed the true head and body.
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