Butterfly Field Cards
One card per species from Lucy's specimen drawer: butterflies and moths from around the world, each with its catalog lines and a guide to looking closely.
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Purple Spotted Swallowtail
Graphium weiskei
From Lucy's catalog
- Family: Papilionidae
- Subfamily: Papilioninae
- Tribe: Leptocircini
- Distribution: New Guinea, Papua.
Field note
This swallowtail from New Guinea has black wings set with vivid patches of blue and purple.
From our drawer
This specimen is a butterfly in the swallowtail family, Papilionidae. Start with the background color of the wings, which is black. Then look for the bright patches spread across that dark ground. Some of them read as blue and some as purple. Name each color out loud as you find it, and notice where the blue patches sit and where the purple ones sit. See how many patches you can find on one wing, then look across to the wing on the other side and check whether the two match. Its common name, Purple Spotted Swallowtail, points to the same clue, so the purple spots are a good place to begin.
Inside: 33 pieces
- Papilio peranthus
- Protesilaus protesilaus
- Purple Spotted Swallowtail
- Graphium sarpedon
- Queen
- Danaus chrysippus
- Methona confusa
- Dione juno andicola
- Zebra Longwing
- Heliconius ismenius
- Heliconius atthis
- Heliconius doris
- Heliconius melpomene
- Colobura dirce
- Hypolimnas bolina
- Malachite
- Asterope leprieuri
- Red Rim
- Cramer's Eighty-eight
- Hamadryas laodamia
- Adelpha cytherea
- Silver-studded Leafwing
- One-spotted Prepona
- Haetera piera
- Morpho helenor
- Caligo eurilochus
- Anteos menippe
- Orange-barred Sulphur
- Necyria duellona
- Chorinea octauius
- Arhopala eumolphus
- Atlas moth
- Alcides agathyrsus
Developed with Lucy Garcia Salik, PhD.
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