Leafwing butterfly
The marking on the underside of this butterfly’s wings act as camouflage when the butterfly’s wings are shut - it appears just like a leaf.
Object Summary
- Accession Loan No.
- 49/1955/1712
- Category
- Natural History
- Collection Class
- Arthropods
- Collection Area Region
- South America
- Collector Excavator
- Woodward, Captain George Calthorpe (from the collection of)
- Common Name
- leafwing butterfly
- Simple Name
- insect: butterfly
![NYMPHALIDAE: Zaretis itys (Cramer, [1777]): skeletonized leafwing](https://cdn3.swcollectionsexplorer.org.uk/sizer/webroot/imgp.php?src=ramm/images/49-1955-1712.jpg&width=400)
