I hope you like the red butterflies that I have chosen for you this month!
The national butterfly of Singapore is the Red Rose butterfly.
Pachliopta aristolochiae, the common rose, is a swallowtail butterfly belonging to the Pachliopta genus, the roses, or red-bodied swallowtails. It is a common butterfly which is extensively distributed across South and Southeast Asia.
It is widely distributed in Asia including Afghanistan, Pakistan, India (including the Andaman Islands), Nepal, Sri Lanka, Myanmar, Thailand, Japan (south-western Okinawa only), Laos, Vietnam, Cambodia, Nicobar Islands, peninsular and eastern Malaysia, Brunei, Philippines (Palawan and Leyte), Indonesia, Bangladesh and Taiwan.
In China, it is distributed in southern and eastern China (including Hainan, Guangdong province) and Hong Kong. In Indonesia, it is distributed in Sumatra, Nias, Enggano, Bangka, Java, Bali, Kangean, Lombok, Sumbawa, Sumba, Flores, Tanahjampea, and Kalimantan.
It is also recorded from Pune.
It is very common almost all over the plains of India, and is not threatened as a species. During and after the monsoon it is extremely abundant.
The upperside of male is velvety black.
Forewing with well-marked pale adnervular streaks on the discal area that do not reach the terminal margin, the latter broadly velvety black; the streaks beyond end of cell extended inwards into its apex.
Hindwing with elongate white discal markings in interspaces 2–5 beyond the cell.
In dry-weather specimens these markings are very short and do not nearly reach the bases of the interspaces; beyond these a curved series of subterminal lunular markings in interspaces one to seven dull crimson irrorated with black scales, the spot in interspace one large, irregular, diffuse, margined interiorly with white.
On the underside of the males, the ground color and markings is similar, but the red subterminal spots on the hindwing much brighter; it is not irrorated with black scales, better defined, the anterior four subquadrate, the next two crescent shaped, sometimes quadrate also, the spot in interspace one triangular and pointed. Antennae, thorax and abdomen above up to the pre-anal segment black; the head, sides of prothorax above, and of the whole of the thorax and abdomen beneath vermilion red; anal segment vermilion red.
Females are similar to the males; they differ from the male only in the comparatively broader wings and this is most conspicuous in the forewing.
The Postman butterfly is from Ecuador.
Heliconius melpomene, the postman butterfly, common postman or simply postman, is one of the heliconiine butterflies found from Mexico to northern South America. Several species in the genus have very similar markings and are difficult to distinguish. This is an example of mimicry.
The postman butterfly has large long wings with an orange stripe down each forewing. It is poisonous and has red patterns on its wings. They tend to look similar to the species Heliconius erato. Two features found on the underside help to distinguish H. erato from H. melpomene—H. erato has four red dots where the wing attaches to the thorax while H. melpomene has three and the yellowish white stripe on the underside reaches the margin of the hindwing in H. erato but ends before reaching the margin in H. melpomene.
H. m. rosina
There are many morphs of this butterfly throughout Central and South America. The geographical variation in patterns has been studied using linkage mapping and it has been found that the patterns are associated with a small number of genetic loci called genomic "hotspots". Hotspot loci for color patterning have been found homologous between co-mimics H. erato and H. melpomene, strengthening evidence for the parallel evolution between the two species, across morph patterns.[
A recent study, using amplified fragment length polymorphism (AFLP) and mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) datasets, places the origins of H. melpomene at 2.1 Mya.[8] H. melpomene shows clustering of AFLPs by geography suggesting that the species originated in eastern South America
The distribution of this butterfly is from Central America to Southern Brazil.
The caterpillar feeds on passion flower species. In Central America, the host plants are Passiflora oerstedii and Passiflora menispermifolia. In other places they breed on several other Passiflora species.[9] Larvae of Heliconius charithonia also eat Passiflora, in order to indirectly attract males to females via the chemical signals emitted upon feeding.
The final red butterfly that I will be sharing with you today is the Red Lacewing which is from Australia.
Cethosia biblis, the red lacewing, is a species of heliconiine butterfly belonging to the Nymphalidae family.
Cethosia biblis is medium-sized butterfly, with a wingspan reaching about 8–9 centimetres (3.1–3.5 in). In this species the sexes are dimorphic. In males the dorsal sides of the wings are bright orange red, framed by a black outline with white spots. The undersides range from bright red to pale brown, interlaced by black and white. This astonishing pattern helps to disguise the shape of the butterfly, while the intense color of the dorsal sides of the wings is a warning to predators that the red lacewing has a bad taste, deriving from the poisonous host plants of the caterpillars. The dorsal sides of the wings of the females are greyish-brownish with black spots and white bands and spots on the black margins.
Caterpillars have several reddish, black and white stripes, a black head and long black spikes that contain poison. In fact they mainly feed on poisonous climbing plants, mainly Passiflora species (P. cochinchinensis, P. moluccana, etc.).
This species can be found from the Indian subcontinent eastwards to South-East Asia and East Asia, the eastern limit being the Philippines, and the southern limit being Indonesia.
I hope you enjoyed reading about these red butterflies. See you again next month!
The red-spotted purple is a beautiful forest butterfly that is also commonly seen in wooded suburban areas. I chose this butterfly because it is commonly seen in Missouri where I live and I think it is gorgeous.
Introducing the 'MacLeahy's Swallowtail '. Said to be named after the international entomologist, Alexander MacLeahy around the time of 1814. He immigrated to Australia and founded the MacLeahy Museum at the University of Sydney.
This butterfly is found high in the treetops on the east coast of Australia. The caterpillar grows to 4cm. The adult has a wingspan of 8cm (just over 3"). Unlike most butterflies, this one has green legs which is very unusual.
The MacLeahy Butterfly was featured on one of our 20 cent stamp issues in 1981.
I hope you enjoy the pics with a bit of info also. Cheers, Jen 😊
The Peacock butterfly, is a colorful butterfly, found in Europe and temperate Asia as far east as Japan.
The Peacock's spectacular pattern of eyespots, evolved to startle or confuse predators, make it one of the most easily recognized and best-known species.
Although a familiar visitor to garden buddleias in late summer, the Peacock's strong flight and nomadic instincts lead it to range widely through the countryside, often finding its preferred habitats in the shelter of woodland clearings, rides, and edges.
This is the Sylphina Angel Butterfly. It is a member of the clear-wing family, it is native to Peru, Ecuador and Bolivia. The Sylphina Angel Butterfly is a neo-tropical species, living in the subtropical broadleaf forests but not the true rain forest of the Amazon. The Sylphina Angel Butterfly are found in the Andean mountains.
Hope you like the images!! They were not the easiest to find!!
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I wanted to do fall colors for this NOVEMBER swap
so I typed in fall butterfly
& this beauty caught my eye ;-) ლ
At first I thought it was a Peacock Butterfly because it is very similar ;-)
But this is found in the southern US
where I am!!! ;-)
Common Buckeye (Junonia coenia) butterflies are only a couple of inches across, but their eyespots can make them look much bigger to predators.
This beautiful butterfly belongs to the Nymphalidae family. It is mostly found in Southern parts of the United States. They usually live in areas of low vegetation. They have white bars on the upper wing surface with 6 prominently visible eyespots. They have a very unique and distinctive feeding pattern as they live on mud fluid and damp sand.
Hope you enjoy these fall colors & Butterflies ;-)
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I had trouble choosing just a few... I have several images more, but thought I should cut them down! These were my favorite images! Enjoy!!!
Photo by: Kerstin Kudla
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I hope you like the red butterflies that I have chosen for you this month!
The national butterfly of Singapore is the Red Rose butterfly.
Pachliopta aristolochiae, the common rose, is a swallowtail butterfly belonging to the Pachliopta genus, the roses, or red-bodied swallowtails. It is a common butterfly which is extensively distributed across South and Southeast Asia.
It is widely distributed in Asia including Afghanistan, Pakistan, India (including the Andaman Islands), Nepal, Sri Lanka, Myanmar, Thailand, Japan (south-western Okinawa only), Laos, Vietnam, Cambodia, Nicobar Islands, peninsular and eastern Malaysia, Brunei, Philippines (Palawan and Leyte), Indonesia, Bangladesh and Taiwan.
In China, it is distributed in southern and eastern China (including Hainan, Guangdong province) and Hong Kong. In Indonesia, it is distributed in Sumatra, Nias, Enggano, Bangka, Java, Bali, Kangean, Lombok, Sumbawa, Sumba, Flores, Tanahjampea, and Kalimantan.
It is also recorded from Pune.
It is very common almost all over the plains of India, and is not threatened as a species. During and after the monsoon it is extremely abundant.
The upperside of male is velvety black.
Forewing with well-marked pale adnervular streaks on the discal area that do not reach the terminal margin, the latter broadly velvety black; the streaks beyond end of cell extended inwards into its apex.
Hindwing with elongate white discal markings in interspaces 2–5 beyond the cell.
In dry-weather specimens these markings are very short and do not nearly reach the bases of the interspaces; beyond these a curved series of subterminal lunular markings in interspaces one to seven dull crimson irrorated with black scales, the spot in interspace one large, irregular, diffuse, margined interiorly with white.
On the underside of the males, the ground color and markings is similar, but the red subterminal spots on the hindwing much brighter; it is not irrorated with black scales, better defined, the anterior four subquadrate, the next two crescent shaped, sometimes quadrate also, the spot in interspace one triangular and pointed. Antennae, thorax and abdomen above up to the pre-anal segment black; the head, sides of prothorax above, and of the whole of the thorax and abdomen beneath vermilion red; anal segment vermilion red.
Females are similar to the males; they differ from the male only in the comparatively broader wings and this is most conspicuous in the forewing.
The Postman butterfly is from Ecuador.
Heliconius melpomene, the postman butterfly, common postman or simply postman, is one of the heliconiine butterflies found from Mexico to northern South America. Several species in the genus have very similar markings and are difficult to distinguish. This is an example of mimicry.
The postman butterfly has large long wings with an orange stripe down each forewing. It is poisonous and has red patterns on its wings. They tend to look similar to the species Heliconius erato. Two features found on the underside help to distinguish H. erato from H. melpomene—H. erato has four red dots where the wing attaches to the thorax while H. melpomene has three and the yellowish white stripe on the underside reaches the margin of the hindwing in H. erato but ends before reaching the margin in H. melpomene.
H. m. rosina
There are many morphs of this butterfly throughout Central and South America. The geographical variation in patterns has been studied using linkage mapping and it has been found that the patterns are associated with a small number of genetic loci called genomic "hotspots". Hotspot loci for color patterning have been found homologous between co-mimics H. erato and H. melpomene, strengthening evidence for the parallel evolution between the two species, across morph patterns.[
A recent study, using amplified fragment length polymorphism (AFLP) and mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) datasets, places the origins of H. melpomene at 2.1 Mya.[8] H. melpomene shows clustering of AFLPs by geography suggesting that the species originated in eastern South America
The distribution of this butterfly is from Central America to Southern Brazil.
The caterpillar feeds on passion flower species. In Central America, the host plants are Passiflora oerstedii and Passiflora menispermifolia. In other places they breed on several other Passiflora species.[9] Larvae of Heliconius charithonia also eat Passiflora, in order to indirectly attract males to females via the chemical signals emitted upon feeding.
The final red butterfly that I will be sharing with you today is the Red Lacewing which is from Australia.
Cethosia biblis, the red lacewing, is a species of heliconiine butterfly belonging to the Nymphalidae family.
Cethosia biblis is medium-sized butterfly, with a wingspan reaching about 8–9 centimetres (3.1–3.5 in). In this species the sexes are dimorphic. In males the dorsal sides of the wings are bright orange red, framed by a black outline with white spots. The undersides range from bright red to pale brown, interlaced by black and white. This astonishing pattern helps to disguise the shape of the butterfly, while the intense color of the dorsal sides of the wings is a warning to predators that the red lacewing has a bad taste, deriving from the poisonous host plants of the caterpillars. The dorsal sides of the wings of the females are greyish-brownish with black spots and white bands and spots on the black margins.
Caterpillars have several reddish, black and white stripes, a black head and long black spikes that contain poison. In fact they mainly feed on poisonous climbing plants, mainly Passiflora species (P. cochinchinensis, P. moluccana, etc.).
This species can be found from the Indian subcontinent eastwards to South-East Asia and East Asia, the eastern limit being the Philippines, and the southern limit being Indonesia.
I hope you enjoyed reading about these red butterflies. See you again next month!
Blessings,
Yvonne
Butterfly quote from Wildchild
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Green Papilio Lorquinianus
I just love the color variations of this butterfly
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The red-spotted purple is a beautiful forest butterfly that is also commonly seen in wooded suburban areas. I chose this butterfly because it is commonly seen in Missouri where I live and I think it is gorgeous.
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Introducing the 'MacLeahy's Swallowtail '. Said to be named after the international entomologist, Alexander MacLeahy around the time of 1814. He immigrated to Australia and founded the MacLeahy Museum at the University of Sydney.
This butterfly is found high in the treetops on the east coast of Australia. The caterpillar grows to 4cm. The adult has a wingspan of 8cm (just over 3"). Unlike most butterflies, this one has green legs which is very unusual.
The MacLeahy Butterfly was featured on one of our 20 cent stamp issues in 1981.
I hope you enjoy the pics with a bit of info also. Cheers, Jen 😊
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This is the Sylphina Angel Butterfly. It is a member of the clear-wing family, it is native to Peru, Ecuador and Bolivia. The Sylphina Angel Butterfly is a neo-tropical species, living in the subtropical broadleaf forests but not the true rain forest of the Amazon. The Sylphina Angel Butterfly are found in the Andean mountains.
Hope you like the images!! They were not the easiest to find!!
MichelleGG :)
BL~ Butterfly profile deco ლ Nov.
I wanted to do fall colors for this NOVEMBER swap
so I typed in fall butterfly
& this beauty caught my eye ;-) ლ
At first I thought it was a Peacock Butterfly because it is very similar ;-)
But this is found in the southern US
where I am!!! ;-)
Common Buckeye (Junonia coenia) butterflies are only a couple of inches across, but their eyespots can make them look much bigger to predators.
This beautiful butterfly belongs to the Nymphalidae family. It is mostly found in Southern parts of the United States. They usually live in areas of low vegetation. They have white bars on the upper wing surface with 6 prominently visible eyespots. They have a very unique and distinctive feeding pattern as they live on mud fluid and damp sand.
Hope you enjoy these fall colors & Butterflies ;-)
HAPPY FALL YALL!!!!
Blessings, cc