Butterflies and Moths: Thirty-six Plates in Colour |
Contents
INTRODUCTION BY ALFRED WERNER Page | 9 |
PLATES AND EXPLANATORY NOTES | 37 |
INDEX OF SCIENTIFIC NAMES | 173 |
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AEGA AGRIAS air-spaces Amazon animal antennae Asia attack ATTACUS ATLAS band beautiful butterflies birds blue body Bolivia BRAHMAEA Brazil BROOKIANA Brush-Footed Butterflies butterflies and moths capture caterpillars Central Africa China chrysalis cocoons Colombia CRICULA Danaid DELIAS DRURYA ANTIMACHUS eggs enemies entomologist ERASMIA Europe feed female flies fly very fast fore wings forests genus Guinea HELICONIUS hundred HYPOLIMNAS India Indo-Australian region insect Islands jungle KALLIMA INACHUS lack tails large numbers larvae Lepidoptera Madagascar magnificent colours males migration mimic Mimicry Morphid MORPHO AEGA MORPHO CYPRIS MORPHO HELENA narrow wings naturalist nature nectar Northern Nymphalids PAPILIO HOMERUS PAPILIO ORNITHOPTERA Papilionids PARNASSIUS Peru PHYLLODES pigmental poets PRECIS PREPONA Protective Resemblance pupa pupates Saturnids season silken girdle South America Southern species belongs specimens spots STICHOPHTHALMA CAMADEVA Swallowtail Butterfly Swallowtail Distribution TAENARIS thousand trees Tropical South America underside upperside URANIA RIPHEUS visits flowers Wallace warning colouration wing scales yellow yellowish-brown