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Graphium tynderaeus, the electric green swordtail, is a butterfly in the family Papilionidae. It is found in Guinea , Sierra Leone , Liberia , Ivory Coast , Ghana , Nigeria , Cameroon , Equatorial Guinea , Gabon , the Republic of the Congo , Angola , the Central African Republic , the Democratic Republic of the Congo and western Tanzania .
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Anaea andria. The Charaxinae, the leafwings, are a nymphalid subfamily of butterflies that includes about 400 species, inhabiting mainly the tropics, although some species extend into temperate regions in North America, Europe, China, and southern Australia.
The Morpho Menelaus' characteristic iridescent wings has a unique wing structure. The ground scales are covered by a set of longitudinal ridges, and within the ridges are layers of lamella. [12] Because the size of the microstructure is the same as the wavelength of light, the layers in the wings react strongly with visible light. [2]
Media in category "Images of butterflies and moths" This category contains only the following file. Plate II Kallima butterfly from Animal Coloration by Frank Evers Beddard 1892.jpg 1,695 × 2,722; 1.77 MB
Graphium macfarlanei (Butler, 1877) – green triangle butterfly or green triangle; Graphium meeki (Rothschild & Jordan, 1901) – Meek's graphium; Graphium meyeri (Hopffer, 1874) Graphium procles (Grose-Smith, 1887) species group: wallacei. Graphium browni (Godman & Salvin, 1879) Graphium hicetaon (Mathew, 1886) Graphium sandawanum Yamamoto ...
Phoebis sennae, the cloudless sulphur, is a mid-sized butterfly in the family Pieridae found in the Americas. There are several similar species such as the clouded sulphur ( Colias philodice ), the yellow angled-sulphur ( Anteos maerula ), which has angled wings, the statira sulphur ( Aphrissa statira ), and other sulphurs , which are much smaller.
The butterfly is 21 to 29 mm (0.83 to 1.14 in) wide with wings outstretched and slightly shorter in length. [6] Female Cupido comyntas museum specimens. Eastern tailed-blue larvae feed on various legumes and are known to secrete a substance which is favored by some ant species. The ant in turn protects the larva of the butterfly from other ...