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Great Eggfly Butterfly

Hypolimnas bolina

Photo by SukanyaDatta
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Field Notes

Description:

Iridescent, bluish white, egg shaped markings on the upper wing ...this one is a male. White running stitch design along lower wing boundary.

Habitat:

My Kolkata, (West Bengal )office garden. It was sunning itself under some flowering winter annuals.

Notes:

I had longed to see this butterfly...such lovely shots on PN. Now I have seen one.
It is called JAMUI in Bangla.

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