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Ultra Deep Blue - _TNY_6348

Some butterflies seem to accumulate many names. Like this blue wave (Myscelia cyaniris) which is also known as blue wave, blue-banded purplewing, tropical blue wave, whitened bluewing and royal blue.

 

It had landed pretty low on a monstera leaf at the Haga Ocena butterfly house in Solna, Sweden so I spent quite some time on my knees in front of it waiting for it to open its wings.

 

As you can see, this eventually did succeed and I managed to photograph that super-intense colour. The ventral side is instead really inconspicuous in a tan camouflage pattern.

 

Given that this is a fairly small butterfly with a wingspan of around 35 mm / 1.3" and was sitting in the shadow, I am quite pleased with the level of detail I managed to eak out here.

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Uploaded on April 26, 2022
Taken on March 25, 2022