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The Cruiser Butterfly

Vindula arsinoe

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Field Notes

Description:

The male Cruiser butterfly is orange brown with fine black border round the upper wings, two small eye spots on the hindwings, and small black markings near the wing edges. The female butterfly has quite different markings. The upper side of the female has dark tips to the forewings and broad pale band across the centre of each forewing which continues onto the leading edge of the hindwing. The female also has two small eyespots on each hindwing.
Size
wingspan: male 75mm, female 82mm

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Comments (1)

Beautiful! I love that third shot with it resting on that leaf in a little patch of sunlight, perfect.
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PublishedMarch 22, 2013

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