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Peacock Pansy

Junonia almana

Photo by SukanyaDatta
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Description:

Bright orange with jagged lightning-type marks on upper border of forewings. Large eyespots.

Habitat:

In Shyamkhola, a part of Kolkata city...it is a semi-urban semi-rural type of area, near a bamboo thicket where there was a huge tract of fallow land.Biodiversity haven. Butterfly Eden.

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Junonia almana

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PublishedNovember 15, 2015

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