#174

Another Butterfly

a Common Five-Ring

don’t say beauty’s not common

see, perched in the green

photo by Yongkiet Jitwattanatam

I came across this striking image while flitting through various photos. Google told me that it’s a Common Five-Ring, native to Asia.

It’s amazing how certain branches of study have terminology specific to their areas. Here’s the technical description that I found on the web:

Male: Upperside brown, both forewing and hindwing with terminal margins much darker, and generally with more or less distinct subbasal and discal dark bands. Forewing with a large, slightly oblique, oval, bi-pupilled, yellow-ringed black, pre-apical ocellus. Hindwing with two postdiscal, round, uni-pupilled, similar but smaller ocelli, and very often one or two minute tornal ocelli also.

Wow.

But hey, now you’ve learned that you can say to someone, “Look at that ocellus on that butterfly!” (It’s an eye-spot) Or, “Those ocelli are beautiful, aren’t they?”

You’re welcome.

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