Clipper Butterfly Parthenos sylvia
Brown Clipper, P.s. philippinensis
Blue Clipper, P.s. lilacinus
The Clipper butterfly is native to South and Southeast Asia and Australasia.
The Blue Clipper butterfly is native to Malaysia and is an intricate pale blue pattern on
brown, with waspish body stripes.
The blue can be yellowish or mauvish.
The blue can be mauvish, without the yellow . . .
very pale blue . . .
or olive green.
Clippers also have a yellow-brown form. Ranging across Asia-Pacific there are some 30 subspecies;
they are basically blue in Malaysia, blue-green in the Indian sub-continent, brownish in Indonesia/Philippines
and yellowish in northern Australia.
The beige-pink form.
Yellow on black looks wasplike.
The underside.
Clipper underside
Clipper on hibiscus
Clipper underside
Clipper Butterfly emerging from chrysalis
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