? Swallowtail ? by TwoPynts
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Description
Jeroen (Enmos) is helping me ID this butterfly. I have not been able to track it down online or in my books. The closest I came is the Black Swallowtail, but that one is darker and has markings on the outer edges of the upper wings. Not to mention the spots on this one. Perhaps it is of the Spicebush variety. If anyone else recognizes it, let me know and I'll post the info here. ----- Update: 09/12/2005 I think I finally found the proper ID for this butty. Egmont suggested Papilio polytes romulus - The Common Mormon (female) and some specimens I saw indeed looked a lot like my photo. However, as I searched, I found one who's patterns and wing shape were an even closer match. Thanks to everyone who lended aid with this difficult ID. --- Papilio paris paris (The Paris Peacock) FAMILY : Papilionidae A common SE Asian swallowtail. Distribution : South-east Asia & Malaysia (Nepal, India to Myanmar, Thailand, Laos, Vietnam, China and Hong Kong) (( It is a long way from home. ;-] )) Distance between the wing tip's is 7-9 cm. Info taken from: YUTAKA ----- Thanks for stopping by and for your tawny comments on yesterday's photo, Golden Helicon.
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Comments (47)
a swallow tail and a velvet wing!
Nice quotation but I know a lot of people who did exactly the contrary... And exceptionnal shot!
doesn't matter about the name, it's pretty anyway.
Excellent capture,congrats. saluti G.
amazing and so elegant butterfly!!! perfect focus!
perhaps a swallowtail in disguise? ;-)
Excellent shot! I too have seen those that were butterflies and morphed back into a caterpillar and an ugly one at that. hehe...Great Beauty here and again a beautiful shot!
Kort, this is an amzing macro..the only problem being a beautiful butterfly, your don't live very long =( great pic mmy friend
Excellent macro! It is very beautiful!
All is perfect!!
Perfect and fantastic shot, Really impressive to me (I'll be happy in one or two month to have my brand new cam, a 5D Canon... I'm missing resolution !
Oh man!! Where do u find such butties??? What a beauty!!! Superb capture Kortalouche, once again! :)
Spectacular and great macro!!!bravo!V:DDD
beautiful shot
Magnificent butty! I love the detail, clarity, colour, & DOF here! Absolutely superb!
Ciao Kort ! Superb specimen of butty !!! and a excellent macro. Sorry... I can't help you for the name... But I'm shure that Jeroen or Danob could help you ! It's very difficult when you look for the name of a butty to find it on Internet... even after hours or day ;-(((( Have a nice day.
Perfect shot of beautiful creature.
absolutely sublime work :)..:))
I don't know what kind of butterfly this is, but it has a really beautiful color..that deep, warm shade of grey. Wonderful photo. :)
Excellent macro with nice texture for the wings and psoe. have a good day
Geeze! I can never make these shots work. So I'm amazed at the perfection here - color, clarity, and dof. Wow! Just gorgeous!
Another perfect shot!
So delicate... so beautiful. Excellent photography !
So there you are, finding new exotic species that are hard to determine, perhaps you're gonna find new species! :) That would be fun, Heliconia Twopyntius LOL!
wouahhhhhhhh......quelle merveille!!!!!!!!!!!!
What a serie of butterfly !! Amazing
What a beauty.
Gorgeous capture Kortalouche!What a beautiful butterfly and you really did a fabulous job photographing it.Excellent!!!!-M :)
Simply FANTASTIC!!!!!!!!V