Robber Fly (Diogmites missouriensis)

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Shelly221 Denver, CO(Zone 5b) Jul 25, 2006

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kennedyh Churchill, Victoria, Australia(Zone 10a) Jul 25, 2006

Shelly221,
That is a beautiful butterfly picture, but it is not the Blue Morpho, which looks like this with its wings closed: http://www.westford.com/fingerhut/Butterflies/Blue-Morpho-1.jpg
It is one of the Owl Butterflies in the genus Caligo, possibly the same as this: Caligo idomeneus: http://davesgarden.com/bf/showimage/125/

Ken

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Shelly221 Denver, CO(Zone 5b) Aug 01, 2006

Thank you Ken. This was a beautiful blue inside, so I assumed it was a Morpho. This did not pop up on my watched list even tho it is marked as watched LOL. Sorry it took so long for me to get fixed.

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kennedyh Churchill, Victoria, Australia(Zone 10a) Aug 01, 2006

Shelly,
As you can see from this site: http://www.nic.funet.fi/index/Tree_of_life/insecta/lepidoptera/ditrysia/papilionoidea/nymphalidae/morphinae/caligo/idomeneus.jpg
the owls also have brilliant blue upper wings (at least in the males).
I will now move your image across to the Caligo idomeneus entry

Ken

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Shelly221 Denver, CO(Zone 5b) Aug 01, 2006

Thank you so much! LOL I never knew this one would be so difficult.

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kennedyh Churchill, Victoria, Australia(Zone 10a) Aug 01, 2006

Sorry about the strange heading to this thread now. I accidentally moved it to a Robber Fly and then immediately corrected it and sent it to the right place. This thread is now named for the intermediate site LOL

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