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Los Amigos Biological Station, Madre de Dios, Peru
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This is the one of the first shots from when I tried using my Laowa 15mm f/4 Macro lens. As the "15mm" part implies this is a wide angle macro lens and I'm hoping it will offer some new views compared to normal macro lenses.
Part 1 here: www.flickr.com/photos/tinyturtle/52158294196/
For two BTS shots of how insanely close you need to get to the subject, have a look here: www.flickr.com/photos/tinyturtle/52158533169/ and here: www.flickr.com/photos/tinyturtle/52329566739/ - This is the resulting shot of that framing! Looking at the lens in that shot, I can tell that this shot was taken at f/11 and 0.4:1 magnification.
The subject here is an autumn leaf (Doleschallia bisaltide), also known as the leafwing. With the wings folded up it really look like a dead leaf, but for me, it just wanted to sit with the wings open like this.
Another close shot using a more "normal" macro lens here: www.flickr.com/photos/tinyturtle/52267324873/
Doleschallia bisaltide, commonly known as the Autumn Leaf, is a nymphalid butterfly found in India, also found in Australia where they are known as Leafwing.
Autumn Leaf is nectaring on Chaya. Chaya is a little known leafy green vegetable of dry regions of the tropics. The name comes from the Mayan chay. Other common names are tree spinach, chaya col, kikilchay, and chaykeken.
Doleschallia bisaltide or Autumn leaf
Doleschallia bisaltide, commonly known as the Autumn Leaf, is a nymphalid butterfly found in India, also found in Australia where they are known as Leafwing.
Autumn Leaf is nectaring on Chaya. Chaya is a little known leafy green vegetable of dry regions of the tropics. The name comes from the Mayan chay. Other common names are tree spinach, chaya col, kikilchay, and chaykeken.
Doleschallia bisaltide or Autumn leaf
"Papillons en fête" (21ème édition), fleuriste jardin Hamel,
L' Ancienne-Lorette (Québec), Québec, Canada.
Judy Istock Butterfly Haven
at Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum
Chicago, IL
May 2018
Canon FD glass mounted to Sony A7II via Metabones adapter.
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Doleschallia bisaltide, commonly known as the Autumn Leaf, is a nymphalid butterfly found in India, also found in Australia where they are known as Leafwing.
Autumn Leaf is nectaring on Chaya. Chaya is a little known leafy green vegetable of dry regions of the tropics. The name comes from the Mayan chay. Other common names are tree spinach, chaya col, kikilchay, and chaykeken.
Doleschallia bisaltide or Autumn leaf
Chaya
a leaf wing moth brooch. sterling silver body, nickel silver pierced filigree filled with resin, the orange of the wings is circuit board
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I'm a tree peacock. My own creature. It follows people in the forest, and when it is on the risk of being seen it just drop its leafwings. Genious.
Doleschallia bisaltide australis over host groundcover Pseuderanthemum
Rotary Park rainforest, Lismore NSW AU
Memphis, described by Jacob Hübner in 1819, is a Neotropical nymphalid butterfly genus in the subfamily Charaxinae.
There are 61 species in the genus. All are Neotropical and the undersides of the wings closely resemble dead leaves.
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Superfamily: Papilionoidea
Family: Nymphalidae
Subfamily: Charaxinae
Tribe: Anaeini
Genus: Memphis Hübner, [1819]
Species: M. moruus (Fabricius, 1775)
Binomial name: Memphis moruus
On one of the feeding station tables at the Stratford Butterfly Farm, Stratford upon Avon, UK.
From Wikipedia:
Kallima paralekta, commonly known as the Indian Leafwing or the Malayan Leafwing, is a species of brush-footed butterfly of the genus Kallima. Despite its common names, it is not found in India or Malaysia, but is endemic to Java and Sumatra of Indonesia. Like other members of its genus, it is remarkable for its strong resemblance to a dead leaf when its wings are folded. It was one of the species encountered by the British naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace in his travels in maritime Southeast Asia. It is mentioned in his famous 19th-century work The Malay Archipelago as one of the best examples of protective camouflage achieved through natural selection.
They are called brush-footed butterflies or four-footed butterflies, because they are known to stand on only four legs while the other two legs are curled up; in some species these forelegs have a brush-like set of hairs which gives this Nymphalidae family its other common name.
(Anaea andria). Deep East Texas.
I spotted this freshly emerged leafwing as it struggled to take its first flight in our back yard. The camouflage of the leafwings is truly remarkable, and I never would have seen it if I hadn't seen it flash the bright orange of the inside of its wings.
Lochiel, Santa Cruz County, Arizona, USA.
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Doleschallia bisaltide, the autumn leaf, is a nymphalid butterfly found in South Asia, Southeast Asia, and Australasia. In Australia it is also known as the leafwing.
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Nymphalidae
Marbled/Silver-studded Leafwing....(vlindertuin 'Artis"
Tamron SP AF 180mm f/3.5 LD (IF) Macro
No Crop
The Autumn Leafwing is one of the most beautiful butterflies. When it's wings are lifted, they can resemble the shape of a pair of lips as demonstrated here :)
They look just like a dry leaf achieving one of the best camouflage through natural selection. Read more about this beautiful butterfly at en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kallima_paralekta
The habitats of this species are diverse, and include deciduous forest, rainforest and cloudforest, at elevations between sea level and about 1200m. It can be found along forest edges and wide sunny forest tracks, and along the banks of rivers and lagoons.
Tiger Leafwings feed at rotting fruit on the forest floor.
Species which are noxious to birds generally have bright aposematic warning colours on both wing surfaces, although the colours on the underside are usually less bright. On the other hand species that are palatable tend to rely on camouflage to protect them when they are at rest. These species typically have underside patterns that simulate dead leaves. In the case of Consul fabius the dead-leaf appearance is enhanced by the marbled pattern and jagged wing shape.