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Bowker's Marbeled Sapphire

Stugeta bowkeri tearei

Description:

A smallish butterfly. Wingspan: males 26-32 mm females 29-41 mm Upperside metallic purple-blue with broad brown borders and spots.

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7 Comments

pamsai
pamsai 10 years ago

thanks Diaz for sharing your little video. Love the way they move their tails!

pamsai
pamsai 10 years ago

thanks Rieko and dotun55

Diaz José Miguel
Diaz José Miguel 10 years ago

Hi, on this spotting you can see a video of the wing movement mentioned by Pamsai: http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/235...

dotun55
dotun55 10 years ago

Nice

RiekoS
RiekoS 10 years ago

Beautiful.

pamsai
pamsai 10 years ago

yes Sarah,they are, and they constantly twitch their little tails and rub them up and down, showing a flash of their metalic purple-blue wings.

sarah in the woods
sarah in the woods 10 years ago

so pretty!

pamsai
Spotted by
pamsai

Sifundza seLubombo, Swaziland

Spotted on Mar 21, 2014
Submitted on Apr 22, 2014

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