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Paper Butterflies
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Paper Butterflies

Idea

Idea is a genus of butterflies known as tree nymphs or paper butterflies. The member species are concentrated around South-East Asia. See Sevenia for the genus of African tree nymphs.

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14 branches of this genus, most-observed first

Rice Paper Butterfly

speciesIdea leuconoe

Common Tree Nymph

speciesIdea stolli

Malabar Tree Nymph

speciesIdea malabarica

Ceylon Tree Nymph

speciesIdea iasonia

Blanchard’s Ghost

speciesIdea blanchardii

Giant Tree Nymph

speciesIdea lynceus

Malayan Tree Nymph

speciesIdea hypermnestra

Durvillei's Tree Nymph

speciesIdea durvillei

Andaman Tree Nymph

speciesIdea agamarschana

Linnaeus Tree Nymph

speciesIdea idea

Electra's Tree Nymph

speciesIdea electra

Bedford-Russell's Tree Nymph

speciesIdea tambusisiana

Idea agelia

speciesIdea agelia

Idea fregela

speciesIdea fregela

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Where it lives

Recorded sightings

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In the old herbals & bestiaries

Paper Butterflies in Illustrations of Fungi which Grow in Bavaria and the Palatinate around Ratisbon, Vols 1–2

Illustrations of Fungi which Grow in Bavaria and the Palatinate around Ratisbon, Vols 1–2

Jacob Christian Schaeffer; C.H. Persoon (ed.) · 1800 · p.381

Paper Butterflies in Ortus sanitatis

Ortus sanitatis

1491 · p.491

Paper Butterflies in Musaeum metallicum

Musaeum metallicum

Ulisse Aldrovandi · 1648 · p.155

Paper Butterflies in Rivers of life, or sources and streams of the faiths of man in all lands; showing the evolution of faiths from the rudest symbolisms to the latest spiritual developments

Rivers of life, or sources and streams of the faiths of man in all lands; showing the evolution of faiths from the rudest symbolisms to the latest spiritual developments

Forlong, J.G.R. · 1883 · p.123

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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 82212.