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Green-Banded Urania

Urania leilus

Photo by RachelM
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Field Notes

Description:

Spotted near the Napo River in the Amazon, Ecuador.

Species ID Suggestions

Green-banded Urania

Urania leilus

Comments (7)

Nice, we have Urania fulgens, they migrated by the millions some years, 4 years ago in two hours we stimated 300 000 going across a soccer..
Thanks so much for the info CreativeRedhead!
Beautiful moth! Here's another site about them. http://www.learnaboutbutterflies.com/Amazon%20-%20Urania%20leilus.htm
It was pretty big too, about 15 cm across. It sort of looks like a zebra swallowtail to me, but with nicer colors!

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