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Parthenos sylvia

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Parthenos sylvia

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Parthenos sylvia

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Comments (15)
Christiane
THANK Borzrach.. I guess I am just lucky!
borzrach
So beautiful..I wish I could take photos like that!
Christiane
Thanks Dangermouse... I love the story too...
Dangermouse
I like the myth about the butterflies, never heard that one before! And a great photo too. :)
HemaShah
a very healthy and happy looking butterfly!
Ashish
Nice myths about butterflies....!!
Christiane
Thanks for all this searching.. Someone once told me that Butterfly are the souls of lost babies!
Ashish
Christiane.. Thanks for sharing this wonderful butterfly. To confirm I have to check more than 200 images to find similarity. I find some colour variations of this amazing butterfly specie.
Christiane
Thanks AshishNimkar for the ID and thank Atul...
Atul
the id is spot on ans the pic is fantastic

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