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The butterfly members of this Order of insects include the popular and usually colorful species. Butterfly groups include monarchs, satyrs, dagerwings, leaf-wings, owls, buckeyes, admirals, checkerspots, crecents, fritillaries, heliconids, riodinids, blues, hairstreaks, coppers, whites, orange-tips, sulphurs and swallowtails. Caterpillars of this species form frass chains at the ends of leaves. They bind particles of their droppings together with silk resulting in a jumble of debris which provides some protection from ants as the caterpillars rest from a voracious leaf diet. A somewhat more elaborate camouflage is applied by the adult butterfly, whos underwings bear remarkable resemblance to a dried leaf, all the way down to venation and discoloration. This group is quite variable in the neotropics.@ http://www.insects.org/entophiles/lepi_0... as advised by http://www.projectnoah.org/users/auntnan...
Spotted at Sensational Butterflies at Natural History Museum in London.
I know this butterfly as the Indian Leaf (Kallima paralekta). It turns out that it is the same as the Dead -leaf butterfly. Just another common name.
You wouldn't know it's an insect... except it's got legs! Is that another (darker) one in the background?
Thank you for your comments!
I like this butterfly because it looks like lips! It is really amazing this leaf lips..
Can be Oak leaf butterfly... They look Oak leaf mimic in their ventral view...
http://www.flickr.com/photos/23819233@N0...
Spotted on Jul 17, 2011
Submitted on Sep 6, 2011
