Category: Lilac

Morpho rhetenor

Blue, Collection: big, Family: Nymphalidae Genus: Morpho, Gender: male, Geography: South America, Indigo, Lilac, Pink, Violet

Morpho rhetenor (Cramer, 1775)

Morpho butterflies have metallic shimmering shades of blue and green on dorsal side of their wings. Such colouration is a result not of pigmentation but of iridescence. So, the colours we see vary with viewing angle, they may change from ligth cyan to deep green from pale pink to dark violet in the same place.
Thus two wings of one Morpho butterfly almost always look different.
Morpho Rhetenor inhabits South America. It is found in Surinam, French Guiana, Brazil, Peru, Ecuador, Colombia and Venezuela.

The wingpsan of this butterfly is about 14 cm.
This bead butterfly is woven of 22 colours.

The bead pattern is available at https://bead-patterns.com/beadpattern/butterfly-morpho-rhetenor
Nacaduba biocellata

Blue, Collection: tiny, Family: Lycaenidae, Gender: male, Geography: Australia, Indigo, Lilac, Pink, Violet

Nacaduba biocellata (C. & R. Felder, 1865), or the Two -Spotted Line Blue,(first described by Cajetan and Rudolf Felder, father and son,Austrian entomologists in 1865) is a 20 mm wingspan Indo-Australian butterfly also inhabiting Singapore. Its pale-yellow caterpillar feeds on acacia and turns to red (or sometimes green) colour before becoming a pupa. It takes the butterfly of about a fortnight from a new-born egg to an imago (an adult butterfly).

The bead butterfly is woven of 13 colours.
The bead pattern is available at https://bead-patterns.com/beadpattern/nacaduba-biocellata-butterfly
Papilio arcturus

Black, Blue, Collection: big, Family: Papilionidae, Gender: male, Geography: Asia, Green, Lilac, Multicoloured

Papilio arcturus (Westwood, 1842), or the Blue Peacock is a swallowtail butterfly found in India. The wingspan is about 10-12 cm.
This bead butterfly is woven of 17 colours.

The bead pattern is available at https://bead-patterns.com/beadpattern/butterfly-papilio-arcturus
Precis octavia sesamus

Black, Blue, Collection: big, Family: Nymphalidae, Gender: male, Geography: Africa, Indigo, Lilac, Multicoloured, Pink, Red

Precis octavia (Cramer, 1777), or Gaudy Commodore is an African butterfly. Its southern subspecies has a summer form (natalensis), flying in dry season, which is red with black markings, and a winter form (sesamus), flying in rainy season, which is blue with a line of red markings on the wings.
The wingspan is about 60-70 mm.
This bead butterfly is woven of 26 colours.

The bead pattern is available at https://bead-patterns.com/beadpattern/butterfly-precis-octavia-sesamus

Category: Lilac

Morpho rhetenor

Nacaduba biocellata

Papilio arcturus

Precis octavia sesamus