Description:
Pedaliodes tyrrheus is endemic to the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta with two subspecies:
1. the Western subspecies Pedaliodes tyrrheus tayrona and
2. the Eastern subspecies Pedaliodes tyrrheus tyrrheus which has a diagnostic reddish submarginal band on the upperside of the hindwing.
Pedaliodes tyrrheus tayrona lacks this band.
The photo does not show the upperside of the hindwing so I can't tell which subspecies this is.
It resembles Pedaliodes cebolleta with a more or less similar underside, which is very localized and restricted to a very humid altitudinal band of cloud forest.
Dr. Angel Viloria, a Venezuelian expert on Satyrine butterflies, has helped me identify this butterfly.
El Dorado Lodge area, Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, Colombia, 27 October 2014