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Libythea lepita, the common beak, is a butterfly that belongs to the Libytheinae group of the brush-footed butterflies family. It is found from southern India to Japan and its larval food plants include members of the Cannabaceae , particularly in the genera Celtis and Trema .
Eclectus is a genus of parrot, the Psittaciformes, which consists of four known extant species known as eclectus parrots and the extinct Eclectus infectus, the oceanic eclectus parrot. The extant eclectus parrots are medium-sized parrots native to regions of Oceania , particularly New Guinea and Australia .
The eyes of butterflies are usually brown, golden brown, or even red as in the case of some species of skippers. [ 11 ] While most insects have three simple eyes, or ocelli , only two ocelli are present in all species of Lepidoptera, except a few moths, one on each side of the head near the edge of the compound eye.
This species’ males can be easily identified as they are colored bright yellow with four black tiger-like stripes on the forewing. An Eastern tiger swallowtail butterfly, South Carolina’s ...
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The Moluccan eclectus (Eclectus roratus) is a parrot native to the Maluku Islands (Moluccas). It is unusual in the parrot order for its extreme sexual dimorphism of the colours of the plumage; the male having a mostly bright emerald green plumage and the female a mostly bright red and purple/blue plumage.
Variable in the extent and breadth of the orange-yellow markings and in the mottling and ground colour of the underside. Typically males and females have the ground colour on the upperside dark brown, with the following orange-yellow markings: Forewing: a streak from the base along the median vein extending narrowly on each side of it and continued beyond as a comparatively large oval spot in ...
The Papuan eclectus, [2] red-sided eclectus, or New Guinea eclectus [3] (Eclectus polychloros) is a parrot species which is native to New Guinea. Larger than the Moluccan eclectus, the green plumage of the male only has a slight yellow tinge and the tail is tipped with a half-inch yellow band. The central tail feathers are green and lateral ...