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Butterfly in Brazil...
Posted: Sun Dec 18, 2011 12:30 am
by NickB
My daughter is on a round-the-world tour and under orders to try to get some butterfly pictures..
Here is an 88 - but have mislaid my "500 Butterflies of the World" to check exactly which one it is...?
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Sorry for poor quality of image - took it off her Facebook page...
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Re: Butterfly in Brazil...
Posted: Sun Dec 18, 2011 8:30 am
by Padfield
That is
Diaethria clymena, which is common throughout Brazil.
Around the world in 88 butterflies?
Guy
Re: Butterfly in Brazil...
Posted: Sun Dec 18, 2011 9:12 am
by David M
That's a bizarre underside pattern. Looks like some sort of target.
Re: Butterfly in Brazil...
Posted: Sun Dec 18, 2011 9:55 am
by NickB
padfield wrote:That is
Diaethria clymena, which is common throughout Brazil.
Around the world in 88 butterflies?
Guy
Thanks, Guy;
Diaethria clymena - Cramer's Eighty-eight, apparently - don't know who the others belong to!
...and is that only 87 to go...
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Re: Butterfly in Brazil...
Posted: Tue Dec 20, 2011 5:55 pm
by Dave McCormick
David M wrote:That's a bizarre underside pattern. Looks like some sort of target.
There is lots like it, from different species of "88" butterflies that have the 88 marking to other species that have an "89" mark and ones that have marking that looks like "BD", rather unusual, but great bunch, don't know what having such markings would do.