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Red-Spotted Purple

Limenitis Arthemis Astyanax

Description:

It is blackish with blue iridescence. It has small orange dots on the top of its wings and white dots around the outside of all wings.

Notes:

This butterfly is in the Brushfoot family. This guy was sitting on the hood of our car when we snapped the picture.

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AaronR
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AaronR

Omaha, Nebraska, USA

Spotted on Jul 29, 2011
Submitted on Jul 4, 2012

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