The scientific name of the dead-leaf butterfly is dead-leaf butterfly, which belongs to Lepidoptera Nymphalidae. It is a world-famous mimicry species and a typical example of natural camouflage. The vertex angle of the front wing and the hip angle of the rear wing extend back and forth, showing the shape of petiole and tip. The wings are brown or purple-brown, with a dark blue luster. There is a dark yellow broad oblique band in the middle of the wing, white spots on both sides, and dark wavy lines on the sub-edges of the two wings.
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Butterfly is an insect, which can represent name and love. It gave up beauty for survival and became a dead leaf for survival. Dead leaf butterfly in China, alias: dead leaf butterfly, dead leaf butterfly, dead leaf butterfly, dead leaf butterfly in China. It belongs to a large butterfly, which is famous for imitating dead leaves and is found in southern China and South Asia. When the wings are combined, they are like a dead leaf. The front of butterfly wings is divided into three parts by brown, orange and metallic blue, and the base of rear wings is metallic blue and the periphery is brown. It is a high-grade butterfly variety in the butterfly collection.
Among butterflies in Emei Mountain, imitating dead leaves is the most famous. The dead-leaf butterfly in Emei Mountain belongs to the Chinese dead-leaf butterfly, with beautiful appearance and lifelike mimicry. It is 4 cm in length and 9 cm in wings. The color of the back of the wings can be compared with that of butterflies, mostly velvet satin-like dark blue, flashing dazzling luster.
There is an orange broadband across the wing surface in the middle area of the front wing, a small white dot on the secondary top and a transparent dot in the middle area. Most of the hind wings are purple, and the trailing edge area is gray. There are withered leaves on the ventral side of the wings. At rest, there are continuous and obvious dark brown longitudinal lines from the apex angle of the front wing to the hip angle of the rear wing, and there are several diagonal lines on both sides of the longitudinal lines, which are very similar to the veins. The colored lines on the opposite side of the wings vary with individuals and seasons, but they do not leave the dead leaves.