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Answers To The Mysteries

    How many butterflies are exactly the same?

  1. Start with the blue butterfly in the middle, called Morpho Rhetenor Cacica-from Peru. The middle butterfly is the same as the 3 closest blue butterflies at 9, 12 and 3 o’clock. #23, #22, #40, #50
  2. A little further out at 9 and 3 o'clock are two blue butterflies that look the same as the Morpho Rhetenor Cacica and are from Peru, but are called Morpho Didius, #21 & #49. Notice the difference in wing shape.
  3. The two yellow butterflies, Phoebis Philea, #32 & #52, from Peru are identical.
  4. The two orange & black butterflies, #15 & #59, are identical Ornithoptera Croesus Lydius.
  5. The two yellow-bodied butterflies with deep blue wings, #39 & #16, are identical Ornithoptera Poseidon Urvillianus from Papua New Guinea.
  6. The top right corner butterfly, Urania Riphaeus from Madagascar, #19, is identical to #38.
  7. The Papilio Ulysses from Papua New Guinea at 3 o'clock, #17, is identical to #48 near the left corner.
  8. In the bottom right corner, #1, Papilio Xuthus from Hawaii, is identical to #2 to its left.
  9. At the middle bottom, #6 & #7, are identical Nymphalis Antiopa from Mexico.
  10. In the left corner, the 8 orange butterflies are 3 different species. #64, #65, #67 & #69 are Dryas Julia from Peru. #70, #68 & #66 are Appias Nero Zamboanga from the Philippines, and #62 is Appias Nero from Celebes Island.
How many butterflies are actually the same, the only difference being one butterfly shows the upperside (top) and another shows the underside (bottom)?
  1. There are two Papilio Antenor next to each other near the bottom right, #3 is upperside and #4 is bottomside.
  2. At 3 o'clock, # 10 is the upperside and #11 is the underside of the Asterope Philotina Optima from Peru. #8 and #9 are the upperside and underside of Anaea Cyanea from Peru.
  3. Africa’s largest butterfly, #14 & #61, are the upperside and underside of the Papilio Antimachus.
  4. At the top right, #20 is the upperside and #37 is the underside of the Ornithoptera Priamus Poseidon from Papua New Guinea.
  5. On the left, the 5 butterflies are a mix of male and female and top & bottom. The only white butterfly, #57, is the male Delias Zebuda from Sulawesi Island, and its underside is #53. The female shown upperside is #56, and #55 & #54 are the Delias Splendida female upperside and underside.
How many butterflies have the same name, but are male and female?
  1. In the bottom right, #5, Papilio Antenor is the male with red tipped wings and its female is #3.
  2. At 3 o'clock, #11 & #13 are the underside of the male and female of the Asterope Philotina Optima. The male has more red. #10 & #12 are the upperside of the same, with the male having more blue.
  3. The white male butterfly, #57 & the female, #56, are Delias Zebuda from Sulawesi Island.
  4. #11 & #13 are male & female underside Asterope Philotina Optima from Peru. #10 & #12 are male and female of the same, upperside.
Of the 10 solid red butterflies, how many have the same name?

The top 3 on each side are Cymothoe Coccinata and the bottom 2 are Cymothoe Sangris with fewer black dots on the hindwings.

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