Taenaris catops (Westwood, 1851), or the Silky Owl is a butterfly of New Guinea.
Its wingspan is 75-95 mm.
The bead butterfly is woven of 11 colours.
The bead pattern is available at https://bead-patterns.com/beadpattern/butterfly-taenaris-catops-small
Teinopalpus imperialis (Hope, 1843), or The Kaiser-i-Hind, which means “the Emperor of India” is a highland rare butterfly of Nepal, Bhutan and along the Eastern Himalayas in India.
The wingspan is 75-127 mm.
This bead butterfly is woven of 14 colours.
The bead pattern is available at https://bead-patterns.com/beadpattern/butterfly-teinopalpus-imperialis
Thaumantis diores (Doubleday, 1845), or the Jungle Glory inhabits Thailand. The span of the wings is about 8 cm.
This bead butterfly is woven of 13 colours.
The bead pattern is available at https://bead-patterns.com/beadpattern/butterfly-thaumantis-splendens
Trogonoptera brookiana(Wallace, 1855), or Rajah Brooke’s Birdwing inhabits rainforests of Borneo and the Malaysian Peninsula. The butterfly got its name after Sir James Brooke, the first White Rajah of 19th century Sarawak.
Trogonoptera Brookiana is the national butterfly of Malaysia.
The span of its wings is about 12-16 cm.
This bead butterfly is woven of 8 colours.
The bead pattern is available at https://bead-patterns.com/beadpattern/butterfly-trogonoptera-brookiana
Troides magellanus (Felder, 1862), or the Magellan Birdwing is a butterfly found in the Philippines and on Taiwan’s Orchid Island. It was first described in 1862 and named for the explorer Ferdinand Magellan who was killed in the Philippines in 1521.
This butterfly’s wingspan is about 16-18 cm.
This bead butterfly is woven of 5 colours.
The bead pattern is available at https://bead-patterns.com/beadpattern/butterfly-troides-magellanus
Tyria jacobaeae (Linnaeus, 1758), or the cinnabar moth is found in Europe and western and central Asia.
Its wingspan is 31-41 mm.
The moth has proven to be particularly successful as a biocontrol agent for ragwort when used in conjunction with the ragwort flea beetle in the western United States.
The bead moth is woven of 9 colours.
The bead pattern will be available later.
Vindula arsinoe (Cramer, 1777) , or the cruiser can be found from the Maluku Islands and New Guinea to the Solomon Islands and Queensland.
Its wingspan is about 80 mm.
The butterfly is supposed to be first described by Dutch merchant and entomologist Pieter Cramer in 1777.
And may seem strange, for Pieter Cramer died in 1776. In fact, he gathered a great natural history collection and engaged the painter Gerrit Wartenaar to draw his specimens. The result, a great work named “De Uitlandsche Kapellen” was published in 1775-1782, an issue every three months. Pieter Cramer died in 1776, but specimen, described and named by him, continued being published 9 years after his death.
The bead butterfly is woven of 10 colours.
The bead pattern will be available later.