Laminated Butterfly - Common Mapwing - Cyrestic thyodamasa

Real Common Mapwing - Cyrestic thyodamas specimen laminated in square plastic sheet. The specimen is clear and indestructible. Safe, authentic and completely unbreakable product put the Butterfly right at your fingertips!

Anyone can safely explore the butterfly from both top and bottom.

The pictures show the top and reverse side of the butterfly.

The butterfly wings stretch from 8 to 8.5 cm (3.1 to 3.3 inch).

Size of the lamination sheet is 11x11 cm(4.3x4.3 inch).

This is a handmade real animal specimen craft. Each one will be a bit different (specimen size, color and posture) even in the same production batch.
The pictures in the listing are just for reference as we are selling multiple pieces with same pictures.

It is an ideal learning aid for students and kids and also a very good collectible item for every body.

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Common Mapwing - Cyrestic thyodamas

Order: Lepidoptera      Family: Nymphalidae       Genus: Cyrestis       Species: C. thyodamas

Habitat: Open country

Forewing length: 35 mm

Wing span: 5.5 –  6 cm

Distribution: Continental India generally, from the Himalayas to Travancore, in the hills, avoiding the hot dry plains of Northern and Central India; Assam; Burma; Tenasserim ; extending to China and Japan.

The Common Map (Cyrestis thyodamas) is a species of nymphalid butterfly found in South Asia and Southeast Asia.

Males and females upperside white, in many specimens pale ochraceous yellow, veins black. Fore wing with four very slender irregularly sinuous transverse black lines, the costal margin shaded with ochraceous at base and fuscous beyond; cell crossed by three or four additional line short lines; a postdiscal very incomplete series of white-centred broad fuscous rings in the interspaces, tinged with ochraceous near the tornus and broadly interrupted in interspaces 3 and 4 ; beyond this two transverse black lines not reaching the dorsal margin, shaded with fuscous between; the apex broadly and the termen also shaded with fuscous. Hind wing with three transverse fine lines; a pair of postdiscal broad black lines shaded with light sepia-brown between, forming a conspicuous band, the outer line broken and incomplete, followed by two irregular line black lines, a subterminal more pronounced black line, and posteriorly a narrow black terminal margin ; dorsal margin broadly fuscous at base; apical half and the tornal area and lobe rich ochraceous, with some sepia-brown and black markings. Underside similar, the markings of the upperside showing through by transparency; the ochraceous shading on dorsum and tornal area on hind wing of less extent, but the tornal lobe darker ochraceous with a central large round black spot. The markings both on upper and under sides vary a little in depth of colour and breadth. In many specimens there is a diffuse fuscous spot between the discal pair of transverse fine lines on fore wing. Antennae, head, thorax and abdomen above black, thorax and abdomen with lateral greyish longitudinal stripes : beneath white. .Body of the female paler than that of the male.

Race andamanica, Very closely resembles the typical form ; the dark markings, however, are as a rule heavier and more pronounced, but in this some specimens from the Anaimalai Hills approximate very closely to the lighter coloured Andaman individuals. One constant point of difference, however, seems to be the large amount of rich ochraceous colour on the upperside of the hind wing posteriorly. The costal margin and the postdiscal series of rings on the fore wing are also strongly tinged with ochraceous.