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Great Mormon (female)

Tenerife.

Icod, the Butterfly Garden.

Mariposario del Drago.

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Great Mormon (Papilio memnon) is a large butterfly with contrasting colors that belongs to the Swallowtail family. A common South-Asian butterfly, it is widely distributed and has thirteen subspecies. The female is polymorphic and with mimetic forms.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Mormon

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Uploaded on June 23, 2013
Taken on May 9, 2011