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Common Caerulean

Jamides celeno

Photo by Dan Doucette
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Field Notes

Description:

'The pattern of white striations diverts the eyes of avian predators away from the real head, and towards the orange-rimmed back ocellus and "false-antennae" tails.'

Habitat:

tropical rainforest

Notes:

I spotted this in Ujung Kulon national park.

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