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Big black butterfly with light blue markings
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Christer Johansson
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| Posted: Thu Aug 20, 2009 7:05 am Post subject: Big black butterfly with light blue markings |
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This is another one that I call a tropical butterfly. For me it's difficult with all the species that not live around here 
It's about 3" (7,5cm) wide, I guess...
Thanks!!
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| Posted: Thu Aug 20, 2009 9:50 am Post subject: |
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I think your butterfly could be a Papilio nireus lyaeus Christer.
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Christer Johansson
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| eileen wrote: | | I think your butterfly could be a Papilio nireus lyaeus Christer. |
That seems to be correct, yes! I have another image that was a unknown butterfly, but seems to be that species as well 
Thanks Eileen!
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Any chance you can post a photo of the top sides of that butterfly? On most butterflies, the underside of the wings look totally different in color and some markings than the top of the wings do.
Go ahead and start a new topic for each butterfly you want IDed, it keeps the topic from becoming confused and the people who have looked at the first butterfly won't know that there is different one posted in there too so you are less likely to get an answer.
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Christer Johansson
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| toni wrote: | Any chance you can post a photo of the top sides of that butterfly? On most butterflies, the underside of the wings look totally different in color and some markings than the top of the wings do.
Go ahead and start a new topic for each butterfly you want IDed, it keeps the topic from becoming confused and the people who have looked at the first butterfly won't know that there is different one posted in there too so you are less likely to get an answer. |
Well, it seems that those two pictures are the same species but from two different views 
Take a look here
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| Posted: Thu Aug 20, 2009 4:52 pm Post subject: |
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Yep, that's the difference I was talking about 
I am not familiar with that butterfly from either side so it had me confused, isn't it amazing how different the topside and underside can be. 
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Christer Johansson
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| toni wrote: | Yep, that's the difference I was talking about
I am not familiar with that butterfly from either side so it had me confused, isn't it amazing how different the topside and underside can be. |
Yes, that's why I had the two images "tagged" as two unknown species  I have some more that are very different on the two sides 
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