Transparent Butterflies

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These butterflies are known as Greta Oto and are members of the clearwing clade. Due to their beautiful transparent wings, they are also called glasswing or espejitos (”little mirrors”).

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Kingdom: Animalia
Division: Rhopalocera
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Nymphalidae
Genus: Greta
Species: G. oto
Wingspan: 56-58mm
Forewing length: 27-31mm
Abundance: Common
Larval host plants:
Cestrum lanatum
Cestrum racemosum
Cestrum sp. ?San Luis?
Early stages: Solitary

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Photo Courtesy: William A. Haber, Dirk van dar Made, Bill Hails, Dave Hanson, Mark Deering, Martina Koloska

Sources: NeotropicalButterflies.com

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12 Responses to “Transparent Butterflies”

  1. These are awsome butterfly pictures. They remind me of transparent model airplanes.

  2. hmmm… you are giving me ideas with those airplanes ;)

  3. What kind of ideas?

  4. secret!!! :D

  5. Secret ideas! How intrguing. Will you tell on your blog?

  6. Hope so… as soon as I find a few free moments :)

  7. Have you found your free moments yet?

  8. still looking ;)

  9. Well, when you do, pay me a visit and let me know that you’ve found it.

  10. wow…..i just stumbled upon these photos, great, i never even knew butterflies like that existed

  11. I am in love with your site. I could sit and look through it for hours, my kids love it too

  12. Just Stumbled across this. Very cool!

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