Clipper Butterfly
Parthenos sylvia
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Clipper Butterfly Parthenos sylvia |
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The Blue Clipper butterfly comes from Malaysia and is an intricate pale blue pattern on brown, with waspish body stripes |
The blue can be yellowish or mauvish |
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The blue can be mauvish (without the yellow) . . . |
very pale blue . . . |
or brownish yellow |
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Clippers also have a yellow-brown form. Ranging across Asia-Pacific there are some 30 sub-species; they are basically blue in Malaysia, blue-green in the Indian sub-continent, brownish in Indonesia/Philippines and yellowish in northern Australia |
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Clipper underside |
Clipper on hibiscus |
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Clipper Butterfly chrysalis |
Clipper Butterfly emerging from chrysalis | |||||