Butterfly

This butterfly was collected by Major A. B. Gay at ‘ Upper Putumayo, S. E. Colombia’ in June 1931. Major Gay was a curator at the Museum and it is largely thanks to him that we have the well organised and important collection that we do today.

Object Summary

Accession Loan No.
81/2003/1217
Category
Natural History
Collection Class
Arthropods
Collection Area Region
South America
Collector Excavator
Gay, Major Arthur Bertie (from the collection of)
Common Name
butterfly
Simple Name
insect: butterfly
Period Classification
Inter War (1918-1939); Modern (1900-)

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NYMPHALIDAE: Archaeoprepona demophon (Linnaeus, 1758): one-spotted prepona