Crimson Rose Butterfly
by Ramabhadran Thirupattur
Title
Crimson Rose Butterfly
Artist
Ramabhadran Thirupattur
Medium
Photograph - Digital Photography
Description
Crimson Rose (Atrophaneura hector) is a large swallowtail butterfly,
Male Upperside is black. Fore wing with a broad white interrupted band from the subcostal nervure opposite the origin of veins 10 and 11, extended obliquely to the tornus, and a second short pre-apical similar band; both bands composed of detached irregularly indented broad streaks in the interspaces. Hind wing with a diseal posteriorly strongly curved series of seven crimson spots followed by a subterminal series of crimson lunules. Cilia black alternated with white. Underside: fore whig dull brownish black, hind wing black; markings as on the npporsido, but the crimson spots and crescentic markings on the hind wing larger. Antennae, thorax and abdomen abovo at base, black; head and rest of the abdomen bright crimson; beneath: iho palpi, the sides of the thorax and abdomen crimson.
Uploaded
March 20th, 2013
Statistics
Viewed 1,087 Times - Last Visitor from Denver, CO on 04/21/2024 at 3:34 AM
Embed
Share
Sales Sheet
