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Brazilian Dynastor
Plate 1 of 1. Langhans, H.; Ro?ber, J.; Schatz, E.,; Staudinger, Otto, (CC BY-SA 4.0) · via Wikimedia

Brazilian Dynastor

Dynastor napoleon

Dynastor napoleon is a species of nymphalid butterfly native to Brazil.

Its wingspan is about 125 mm. Dynastor napoleon is a large butterfly with a wingspan of with a humped costal margin on the forewings. The upperside of the wings is brown, with the forewings adorned with a white band extending from the midpoint of the costal margin to the outer corner, and a thin orange border along the costal margin and halfway up the outer margin from the apex. The hindwings are brown with a very broad orange-yellow border.

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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 625827.