If you have any photos of
butterflies or has made a website or an article
about butterflies.
Or have an exciting butterflies
trip abroad to talk about.
Can I either make links, photos or
story here!
Queen Alexandra's Birdwing, Ornithoptera
alexandrae (Rothschild, 1907) male.
NMK World, Japan. Broadcast on October
6, 2024 /
Available until January 6, 2025.
World's
Largest Butterfly - Queen Alexandra's Birdwing, Papua New Guinea
Darwin's Amazing Animals
New Guinea is a haven for butterflies with nearly
1,000 species.
Moving through dense jungle in search of the
largest of them all,
the Darwin team wonders how something so big can
be so hard to find!
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Orion Cecropian
d. 5 December 2024
Orion Cecropian, Historis
odius
with Peter Møllmann's butterfly on his hand.
From Rio Broncini near Caranavi Valley, Yungas, Bolivia d. 5
December 2024.
Photographer: Kirsten Matthiesen.
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November 2024
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Mariposas de Bolivia
d.
29 november 2024
Rio
Cahones waterfall
this morning on
november 29, 2024 06:52
on my way from El Alto La Paz airport to
Caranavi Bolivia. Photographer:
Peter Møllmann
Peter Møllmann
is in Caranavi, La Paz, Bolivia.
On 29 November 2024.
Rio Cahones waterfall this morning 06:52.
on my way from El
Alto La Paz airport to Caranavi Bolivia.
Several blue morphos were already flying
along the highway. The rainy season has
started early this year.
Link to:
MARIPOSAS DE
BOLIVIA 2024
The link to the
website for danske-natur.dk is under construction.
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Common Birdswing
Troides helena
d. 18 november 2024
Common Birdwing, Troides
helena
ssp. helena (Linnaeus, 1758) male.
TL. Java, Bali. Wikipedia. Bali.
Indonesia october 2024.
Photographer: Henrik S. Larsen
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Lympharis Morpho
Morpho lympharis
d. 18 november 2024
Lympharis Morpho, Morpho
lympharis ssp. eros (Staudinger, 1892).
Cascades de
Sacramento Alto, Camino de Muerte 2600 m. Yungas,
Bolivia d. 3 - 6
january 2005.
Photographer;
Lars Andersen
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Mariposas de Bolivia
first update d. 29 january 2005
last update d. 13 november 2024
Road from Coroico to Caranavi,
Yungas, Bolivia d. 15
january 2005. Photographer: Lars
Andersen
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Cordillera Satyr
Pronophila cordillera
d. 12 november 2024
Cordillera Satyr, Pronophila
cordillera (Westwood, 1851).
Camino de
Muerte elev. 2600 m. Yungas, Bolivia d. 9
February 2012.
Photographer: Lars Andersen
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Blushing Phantom
Cithaerias pireta
d. 7 november 2024
Blushing Phantom, Cithaerias
pireta ssp. aurorina (Weymer,
1910).
Cascades de Quiharro, Yungas, Bolivia d. 14
february 2008. Photographer; Lars
Andersen
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Orion Cecropian / Stinky
Leafwing
Historis odius
d. 7 november 2024
Orion Cecropian. Historis
odius ssp. dious (Lamas,
1995).
Caranavi, Yungas, Bolivia d. 13 February 2009. Photographer: Lars Andersen
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Blue Admiral
Kaniska canace
d. 8 november 2024
Blue Admiral, Kaniska
canace
ssp. canace (Linnaeus, 1763).
Chitwan National Park, 280 m. Nepal december
1995.
Photographer; Lars Andersen.
Along
the southern slopes of the Himalayan mountain
range in Nepal is found the Blue
Admiral, Kaniska canace
which shares common ancestors with the Camberwell Beauty / Mourning Cloak, Nymphalis
antiopa.
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October 2024
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Speckled Clouded Yellow
Colias christophi
First update 13 october 2024
Last update 13 october 2024
Colias christophi
(Grum-Grshimailo, 1885). Kyrgyzstan d. 10
July 2023. Photographer: Hiroaki
Takenouchi
Hiroaki
Takenouchi: Colias
christophi,
one of the most unusual looking Colias
species, a high-altitude (3,600masl)
scree specialist, and the one I really
wanted to see. Kyrgyzstan, 10 July 2023.
Thank you Nic!
— with Ian Lawson.'
Description: Colias
christophi has
quite an exceptional aspect among Colias,
the costal basal area having a peculiar
reddish-brown colour, and the submarginal
spots of the forewing being
extraordinarily large and almost white,
forming a continuous band which is
traversed by the narrowly black veins.
The hindwing is dark, feebly greenish
with a white middle spot and a band of
white submarginal spots. The underside is
grey green, with a black middle spot on
the forewing and a white one on the
hindwing. The female differs only in the
somewhat larger light submarginal spots
on both wings.
Distribution: It is found in Kyrgyzstan
and Tajikistan.
GBIF:
Global
Biodiversity
Information
Facility.
World distribution: Colias christophi (Grum-Grshimailo,
1885).
Bee Butterfly, Chorinea
octauius (Fabricius, 1787).
Rio Rufus, Taipiplaya, Yungas, Bolivia d. 8
February 2009.
Photographer: Lars Andersen
Syn,: Black Lace, Chorinea
faunus.
Bee Butterflies
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Riodinidae
Tribe: Riodinini
Genus: Chorinea Gray, 1832
Synonyms Zeonia Swainson, [1833] Ethelida Westwood, 1851 (unavailable name) Chorinea is a Neotropical metalmark
butterfly genus 8 species.
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Redline Doctor's
d. 3 october 2024
Redline Doctor,Ancyluris
etias mendita (H. Druce, 1904).
Caranavi
Valley 1000 m., Yungas, Bolivia d. 21
January 2012.
Photographer; Lars Andersen
Synonyms: Melibaea Saunders, 1859 (preocc. Forbes,
1838) Ancyluris is a butterfly genus in the
family Riodinidae. They are resident in the
Neotropics.
GBIF: Global Biodiversity
Information Facility. Ancyluris Hübner, 1819
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Blue Doctor's
d. 3 october 2024
Sword-tailed Doctor,Rhetus
arcius ssp. huana(Saunders, 1859).
Caranavi valley, Yungas, Bolivia d. 16
January 2010.
Photographer; Lars Andersen
Blue
Doctor's
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Riodinidae
Tribe: Riodinini Rhetus Swainson, 1829. Genus 4
species.
GBIF: Global Biodiversity
Information Facility.
World distribution:
Sword-tailed Doctor, Rhetus
arcius
(Linnaeus, 1763).
Basionym: Papilio arcius (Linnaeus, 1763).
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Arunachal Pradesh
d. 17 september 2024
Vista from the Bhutan
Glory, Bhutanitis habitat.
Arunachal Pradesh, India august
2017.
Photographer: Hiroaki
Takenouchi
Hiroaki
Takenouchi
27 september 2024
Vista from the Bhutanitishabitat,
August 2017, Arunachal Pradesh, India.
A throwback to my trips to the amazing
Arunachal Pradesh in NE India where you
can see two species of
Bhutan Glory both B.
lidderdalii & the mythical B.
ludlowi, as well as the Kaiser-i-Hind, Teinopalpus
imperialis.
I'm running another tour (only one or two
more spaces now) in August
2025
- please PM me if you would like more
details!
Brown Gorgon,
Meandrusalachinus
(Fruhstorfer, 1902) male.
Arunachal Pradesh, Indien d. 27
august 2017. Photographer; Hiroaki
Takenouchi
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Italian Marbled White
Melanargia arge
d. 17 september 2024
Italian Marbled White, Melanargia
arge (Sulzer, 1776). Central Italy d. 27 may
2024. Photographer: Giuseppe
Molinari
Italian Marbled White,
Melanargia arge
(Sulzer, 1776).
Appearance: Upper side white only the
submarginal ventral line, the two short
bands in the middle and apex of the cell,
and the beautifully blue-centred eyes/ocelli
are dark - ab. caeca
Stgr. is without ocelli;
rare among the preceding.
Habitat and behavior: Open hills and
slopes dominated by grass. Like all Melanargia,
it is strongly attracted to flowers.
Flight time: It flies from May to June.
Host plants: Ampelodesmos
mauritanicus,
Stipa pennata
and other grasses,
Poaceae.
Distribution: It is an endemic species
found only in the southern half of Italy
and the eastern half of the Italian
island of Sicily.
It may be an evolutionary intermediate
between the western and the Italian
marbled white, M.
occitanica
& M. arge,
as it shows intermediate features of both
species and the range is between the two
species (Spain and mainland Italy).
Gonepteryx rhamni (Common
brimstone)
female laying eggs
on Rhamnus frangula (Frangula
alnus-alder buckthorn) in my garden.
Denmark 7. may 2023.
20+ + eggs in 30 min. on one bush. Video
recorded with 240 fps.
Pedromariposa
Alaena genus with 25 species is
a small yellow butterfly in family
Lycaenidae,
subfamily Poritiinae
and tribe Liptenini.
That is found
in central to eastern and southern
Africa.
What do the larvae of Alaena
amazoula feed on?
Mark C. Williams December
2006 METAMORPHOSIS, VOL. 17, No. 4 140
Butterflies from Namibia and Zimbabve by Regitze
Enoksen. February
-March 2023.
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Mariposas de Bolivia
d. 7 january 2023
Cumbre
pass 4700m. Yungas, Bolivia january
2, 2023. Photographer; Peter
Møllmann
Peter
Møllmann: Finally I am back in Bolivia.
Lots of snow in Cumbre pass 4700m. 2.
January 2023 — sammen med Kirsten
Matthiesen her: Bolivia.
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December 2022
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Bhutan's Glorie
d. 8 december 2022
Bhutan's Glorie, Bhutanitis
lidderdalii. Eagles Nest 2000m.,
Arunachal Pradesh, India august
30, 2017. Photographer; Pamela
Donaldson
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October 2022
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"BNE - Butterflies of N.
Europe" Butterflies of Northern Europe is a
unique, comprehensive reference work that fits in
your pocket
october 9, 2022
The app
contains detailed descriptions of the 168
butterfly species found in northern
Europe, from northern France in the south
to Greenland in the north. Written by butterfly experts Lars
Andersen and John
Vergo,
the meticulous content covers everything
from a species’ appearance to its
distribution and habits, illustrated with
photos of the male, female, eggs,
caterpillars and host plants, together
with flight period charts and
distribution maps.
The 31 comparison
panels show different but easily confused
species side by side, and their
distinguishing characteristics are
highlighted and described with hitherto
unseen precision in over 300 photos with
arrowed references and captions.
Available for google play
and app store
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March 2022
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Morpho telemachus ssp. exsusarion (Le
Moult & Réal, 1962). Caranavi Highlands,
Yungas, Bolivia november
24, 2021 Photographer; Peter
Møllmann
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October 2020
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Pierphulia nysias + Noctuidae sp. Recorded January
2014 in
strong winds at an altitude of 4700 m.
La Cumbre,
Bolivia. Film: Peter Møllmann, Ikon photo Lars
Andersen.
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July 2020
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Nortbern Brown Argus, Aricia
artaxerxes ssp. vandalica ab. rastrupii (S.R.
Andersen & L. Andersen, 2020).
Tornby
Strand, Vendsyssel, Denmark June 17,
2020.
Photographer; Svend Rastrup Andersen
Northern
Brown Argus unknown aberration found
and photographed by
Svend Rastrup Andersen at Tornby
Strand, Vendsyssel, Denmark June
17th 2020.
The ventral side of fore-
and hindwing is dominated by the white
color normally seen in the white and
blackcentered white spots. The brown or
grey color, normally dominating the
underside of both wings is here reduced
and concentrated around the wing nerves.
This aberration lacks, on the ventral
side, the white and blackcentered white
spots as well as the black V’s
around the orange marginal spots. The
dorsal side of the wings are normal.
Named July 8th 2020 by Svend
Rastrup Andersen and Lars
Andersen: Aricia artaxerxes ssp. vandalica, ab.
rastrupii (S.R.
Andersen & L. Andersen, 2020).
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Green-banded Urania, Urania
leilus
April 27, 2020
Green-banded Urania. Urania
leilus
(Linnaeus, 1758). Photographer: Lars
Andersen
Green-banded
Urania, Urania
leilus
(Linnaeus, 1758).
Swallowtail moths / Sunset moths, is a
day-flying moth of the family Uraniidae. Superfamily Geometroidea.
Habitats and behaviors: The habitat
consists of riverbanks in primary and
secondary rainforest and cultivated area
at elevations between sea level and about
800 m (2,600 ft). Often seen by ravines
with streams that cross country roads
where they suck on urine-tainted ground,
or at the edges of drying pools.
Foodplant: feed exclusively on species of
the toxic spurge Omphalea.
Distribution: It is found in tropical
South America east of the Andes,
including Suriname, French Guiana,
eastern Colombia, Venezuela, eastern
Ecuador, Brazil, northern Bolivia,
eastern Peru, and Trinidad. Are local
common in Caranavi to Santa Fe, 2000 ft
altitude belongs Rio Coroico and Rio
Broncini. Yungas, Bolivia.
It has been recorded as a migrant to the
central and northern Lesser Antilles such
as St. Kitts, Barbados and Dominica.
There are two Urania species commonly seen in
the Amazonian region - U.
leilus
and U. fulgens. The latter species is
scarcer and differs in that it lacks the
outermost green bands on the forewings,
and has reduced green markings on the
hindwings.
Coronidia orithea (Cramer, 1780) family Sematuridae.
Kori Wayku inca trail elev. 2000 m. d. 11
February 2012.
Photographer: Lars Andersen
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Orion Cecropian
January 20, 2006 - April 22, 2020
Orion Cecropian. Historis
odius ssp. dious (Lamas,
1995). Caranavi, Yungas, Bolivia january
20 and february 7, 2006.
Photographer; Lars Andersen
Description: A large
butterfly showing a large orange patch on
the forewing if seen from above.
Wingspan 100-146mm.
Habitats and behaviors; it is widespread
in thick woods where it often flies high
at tree-top level patrolling paths and
ridges. Males often settle high up with
head down readily chasing off intruders.
Also seen in cultivated areas along roads
and bridges over riwerstreams.
Nectar Plants: Feeds on rotten fruit and
is not known to nectar at flowers.
Larval Foodplants: Eggs are laid singly
on the leaf tips or underside of a leaf
of
Trumpet Tree, Cecropia
peltata (Urticaceae).
Range: From southern USA to Andes eastern
slopes, Amazonas and south to northern
Argentina and the Greater Antilles.
A remarkable record of the genus Pseudolucia from
Bolivia
(Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae). June 2018
J. F. GUERRA SERRUDO , G. SIEBEL , R. VILA , D.
BENYAMINI & ZS. BÁLINT
February 28, 2020
Pseudolucia toroto (Guerra & Siebel,
2016). Torotoro Dinosaurs National Park, Potosí,
Bolivia d. 2 may 2016. Photographer; Gottfried
Siebel
The occurrence
of a taxon morphologically close to Pseudolucia
jujuyensis (Bálint, Eisele &
Johnson, 2000) is recorded in dry
habitats of Torotoro Dinosaurs National
Park, Potosí, Bolivia. This record
remarkably extends the range of Pseudolucia by almost 800 km
northwards in austral South America.
Five specimens were available for
examinations, hence wing-pattern,
genitalia and mitochondrial DNA were
analysed. However, the taxonomy of the
specimens could not be satisfactorily
resolved in relation to P.
jujuyensis, for which only the
holotype exists.
The females use Cuscuta for ovipositing,
what is supposedly the larval host –
a remarkable character of the chilensis
species group of Pseudolucia, which includes P.
jujuyensis. On the basis of
molecular markers it was revealed that
the Torotoro population is the sister to
the rest of the chilensis species group,
which together are the clade sister to
the rest of the genus.
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Long Proboscis Hawkmoth, Amphimoea
walkeri
February 8, 2018
Long
Proboscis Hawkmoth, Amphimoea
walkeri (Boisduval, 1875). Caranavi,
Yungas, Bolivia february 8, 2018.
Photographer; Peter Møllmann
Long
Proboscis Hawkmoth, Amphimoea
walkeri (Boisduval, 1875). The
wingspan is 147–164 mm.
Adults are on wing year round. They have
the longest insect proboscis in the world,
and nectar from deep-throated flowers as Angel's
Trumpet, Brugmansia
arborea while hovering in the
air.
Larvae feed on Anaxagorea
crassipetala, a lowland rain forest
tree of Costa Rica and surrounding areas,
and probably other members of the Annonaceae family.
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Heraclides anchisiades in
slo mo 2
January 14, 2018
Ruby-spotted Swallowtail, Heraclides
anchisiades. Copacabana, Caranavi,
Yungas, Bolivia January 11, 2018.
Photographer; Peter Møllmann
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Butterflies Books
by V. Tshikolovets
January 12, 2018
Welcome to the website of
the "Butterfly Books" published or
authored by Vadim Tshikolovets.
Within this site you will find
information of all books for sale and
available now.
Please see "The
Butterflies of Palaearctic Asia Series" link to see
information on published volumes and
eight titles in preparation.
"Butterflies of Europe
& the Mediterranean Areas" link contains short
information and photos of this excellent
work.
