Peacock Pansy butterfly
by Ruth Jolly
Title
Peacock Pansy butterfly
Artist
Ruth Jolly
Medium
Photograph - Photography
Description
A beautiful and delicate Peacock pansy is found in the wild in South Asia with distinctive wet and dry season coloration. The wet season form is Upperside yellow-orange, the black markings deeper in color and heavier subterminal and terminal lines more clearly defined. Hind wing: a slender transverse subbasal dark line, a discal whitish straight fascia in continuation of the one on the fore wing; the postdiscal ocelli, the subterminal and terminal lines much as on the upperside but paler; the anterior ocellus with a double iris and center. Antennae dark brown; head, thorax, and abdomen slightly darker than in the dry-season form and in the dry season Hind wing: a small minutely white-centered and very slenderly black-ringed discal ocellus in interspace with a very much larger pale yellow and black-ringed ocellus above it spreading over interspaces the center of this ocellus inwardly brownish orange, outwardly bluish-black, with two small white spots in vertical order between the two colors with a postdiscal subterminal and terminal black sinuous lines. This butterfly was found at Butterfly Wonderland in Scottsdale, AZ. Fine Art America watermark will not appear on purchased artwork.
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September 25th, 2013
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