Common name: Great Blue Mime.
Latin name: Chilasa paradoxa aenigma.
Wingspan: about 10–12cm.
Range: north India to Sundaland.
Habitat: open forest.
Food plant: (Cinnamomum?).
Note: The Great Blue Mime is a mimic of a danaid species, possibly Euploea mulciber. Despite its elaborate disguise, this butterfly gave itself away by drinking at a seepage (the puddling habit), something that is not usually done by danaid species.
Latin name: Chilasa paradoxa aenigma.
Wingspan: about 10–12cm.
Range: north India to Sundaland.
Habitat: open forest.
Food plant: (Cinnamomum?).
Note: The Great Blue Mime is a mimic of a danaid species, possibly Euploea mulciber. Despite its elaborate disguise, this butterfly gave itself away by drinking at a seepage (the puddling habit), something that is not usually done by danaid species.
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The Great Blue Mime (Chilasa paradoxa aenigma)
The Great Blue Mime (Chilasa paradoxa aenigma).
© Chin Fah Shin. All rights reserved.
© Chin Fah Shin. All rights reserved.
This page revised on 19 February 2003. Copyright © Chin Fah Shin.
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