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Butterfly 88

Diaethria anna

Description:

Its upperside is dark brown with a metallic bluish-green band on the forewings. The underside of the forewings are red, which is followed by a wide, black band and then white tips; the underside of the hindwings is white, with lines that approximate a black-outlined "88," giving the species its common name.

Habitat:

Anna's Eighty-eight (Diaethria anna) is a butterfly in wet tropical forests in Central America and South America. On rare occasions, it can be found as a stray in south Texas.

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1 Comment

Carolina
Carolina 12 years ago

Que hermosa!

LauraKrasovitzky
Spotted by
LauraKrasovitzky

Puebla, Mexico

Spotted on Mar 27, 2011
Submitted on Apr 22, 2011

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