Red cracker butterfly
This butterfly was collected in ‘Upper Putumayo, S. E. Colombia’ by Major A. B. Gay in August 1931. Major Gay was a curator at the Museum and is largely responsible for the excellent quality and breadth of our butterfly collections.
Object Summary
- Accession Loan No.
- 81/2003/1228
- Category
- Natural History
- Collection Class
- Arthropods
- Collection Area Region
- South America
- Collector Excavator
- Gay, Major Arthur Bertie (from the collection of)
- Common Name
- red cracker butterfly
- Simple Name
- insect: butterfly
- Period Classification
- Inter War (1918-1939); Modern (1900-)
