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The Butterfly Alphabet is a photographic artwork by the Norwegian naturalist Kjell Bloch Sandved. [ 1 ] Sandved worked at the Smithsonian 's National Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C. , and came up with the idea with Barbara Bedette , a paleontologist, of finding all 26 letters of the Latin alphabet and the Arabic numerals 0 to 9 in ...
Heliconius charithonia, the zebra longwing or zebra heliconian, is a species of butterfly belonging to the subfamily Heliconiinae of the family Nymphalidae. [2] [3] It was first described by Carl Linnaeus in his 1767 12th edition of Systema Naturae. The boldly striped black and white wing pattern is aposematic, warning off predators.
Siproeta stelenes (malachite) is a Neotropical brush-footed butterfly (family Nymphalidae). The malachite has large wings that are black and brilliant green or yellow-green on the upperside and light brown and olive green on the underside. It is named for the mineral malachite, which is similar in color to the bright green on the butterfly's ...
The common leopard is a medium-sized butterfly with a wingspan of 50–55 mm with a tawny colour and marked with black spots. The underside of the butterfly is more glossy than the upper and both the male and female are similar looking. A more prominent purple gloss on the underside is found in the dry-season form of this butterfly. [5]
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The Xerces blue (Glaucopsyche xerces) is a recently extinct species of butterfly in the gossamer-winged butterfly family, Lycaenidae.The species lived in coastal sand dunes of the Sunset District of the San Francisco Peninsula in California.