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Photo by kcdick
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Field Notes

Description:

Brilliantly colored butterfly

Habitat:

Tropical cloud forest

Notes:

Just another butterfly that I didn't know the name of.

Species ID Suggestions

Periander Swordtail

Rhetus periander
bayucca
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Comments (4)
bayucca
Riodinidae, Periander Swordtail, Rhetus periander.
Juan DiTrani
It's probably a Rhetus butterfly, I have a picture of a similar butterfly http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/6383932
Ashish
Blue Doctor from Amazonian treasures..!!
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PublishedJune 23, 2011

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