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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21 Responses to “Transparent Butterflies”

1. Jose, on February 17th, 2007 at 7:18 am Said:

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

2. Alexandra, on February 17th, 2007 at 9:18 am Said:

   hmmm… you are giving me ideas with those airplanes

3. Jose, on February 17th, 2007 at 4:54 pm Said:

   What kind of ideas?

4. Alexandra, on February 17th, 2007 at 11:04 pm Said:

   secret!!!

5. Jose, on February 18th, 2007 at 11:08 am Said:

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

6. Alexandra, on February 18th, 2007 at 11:12 am Said:

   Hope so… as soon as I find a few free moments

7. Jose, on February 27th, 2007 at 10:22 pm Said:

   Have you found your free moments yet?

8. Alexandra, on February 27th, 2007 at 10:50 pm Said:

   still looking

9. Jose, on March 1st, 2007 at 2:02 pm Said:

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

10. Loamzie, on March 19th, 2007 at 6:20 pm Said:

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

11. kelli, on June 29th, 2007 at 12:30 am Said:

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

12. Rock Kauser, on August 7th, 2007 at 4:43 am Said:

    Just Stumbled across this. Very cool!

13. Nadine, on October 1st, 2008 at 2:54 pm Said:

    wow.

    they’re beautiful.

    this sit is fantastic, such interesting pictures of stuff i’d never normally see

14. catherine todd, on October 18th, 2008 at 9:48 am Said:

    What a wonderful collection of glass butterflies (“Greta Oto”). Beautiful!

15. catherine todd, on October 18th, 2008 at 9:51 am Said:

    These transparent butterflies remind me of the Mayflies that are also transparent, and emerge and fly in huge clouds around Lake Michigan. It’s quite a site to behold. Never knew there was something similar in Mexico and the rain forests. Wow.

16. bailey, on January 2nd, 2009 at 5:28 pm Said:

    that is cool

17. maricela, on January 8th, 2009 at 12:18 am Said:

    trans parent wish i could be.

18. Subi, on January 30th, 2009 at 8:33 pm Said:

    we saw a transparent butterfly in Ecuador in a surreal mini rainforest that we wandered in2 by chance whilst wandering.. (i need 2 look up the name of the place again because i can’t remember off-hand & we wandered quite a bit at that time!) we tried 2 photograph it, but my crappy (5 mega pixel) digital camera kept freaking out every time we tried 2 capture it & although we pursued it on its flirtatious route from leaf 2 flower 4 some time we couldn’t get a decent piccy of it & my camera’s been fucked ever since… something mythological or technological going on there but not sure wot… it was quite an amazing sight tho!

19. shitfaced, on April 18th, 2009 at 4:54 pm Said:

    I WOUNDER HOW THERE TRANSPARENT? :/

20. nani, on August 29th, 2009 at 7:56 pm Said:

    aw how pretty!!!

21. nandapolly, on December 1st, 2009 at 7:27 pm Said:

    liiindO!!! *_*

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