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Spotting

Description:

Was hard to photograph as he kept on fluttering away. Grey in colour with beautiful blue reddish and black markings, must say I have never seen one like this before.

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Garden

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2 Comments

KeithRoragen
KeithRoragen 11 years ago

I believe this is called Gaudy Commodore - Precis octavia.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Precis_octa...

KeithRoragen
KeithRoragen 11 years ago

Gorgeous.

DeniseBrink
Spotted by
DeniseBrink

Durban, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa

Spotted on Feb 22, 2012
Submitted on Jun 16, 2012

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