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Amazon Butterfly, Amapa, Brazil, 1959

"Windowpane wings adorn a butterfly (Callitaera) visiting a hairy melastomad plant. Color-bearing scales are reduced to fine hairs, making the wings transparent except for four eyelike dots."

(Text and photograph from "Giant Insects of the Amazon," May 1959, National Geographic magazine)

Photograph by Paul A. Zahl

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