Butterfly at New Forest Wildlife Park, 21 August 2010

Looks to me to be a Purple mort bleu (Eryphanis polyxena), just incase you're interested in the species ?

Well, you are the ZooChat Lepidoptera expert. (I hope!).

bongorob said:

Well, you are the ZooChat Lepidoptera expert. (I hope!).

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What's a Lepidoptera [I joke of course] - I wouldn't call myself an expert, mormons confuse me [as do a lot of variable swallowtails]. Have linked my makeshift guide between 3 'similar' species [large, brown outer wing, bluish/purple inner-wing]. They're all nice, but they're not Ornithoptera sp. or Heliconius sara

http://www.zoochat.com/42/three-species-250521/