The Blue Virgin of the Forest, Pt. 2 - _TNY_6892

The clipper (Parthenos sylvia) is a beautiful butterfly found from India in the west to the Phillipines in the east - plus New Guinea. The Greek word "parthenos" means "virgin" and sylvia comes from the Latin word "silva" meaning "forest".

 

There are a whole bunch of subspecies with variation in the colouration. Some more blue like this one and some more orange like this: www.flickr.com/photos/tinyturtle/51979319677/

 

This species belong to the sub-family Limenitinae which only has two species living in Sweden, the poplar admiral (Limenitis populi): www.flickr.com/photos/tinyturtle/52199707887/ and the for Sweden quite rare white admiral (Limenitis camilla) which I haven't manage to photograph.

 

I took this photo when I was shooting with a (diffused) flash for the first time at the Haga Ocean butterfly house and I am very happy I had the flash as it was on the ground in the rather dark shadow of a couple of trees so without the flash, I wouldn't have had the chance to capture that nice blue hue on the wings.

 

Part 1 (quite similar) here: www.flickr.com/photos/tinyturtle/53664330691/

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