Real butterfly (White Dragontail - Lamproptera curia) specimen encased in indestructible lucite block. Safe, authentic and completely unbreakable specimen put real Butterfly right at your fingertips!

Anyone can safely explore the Butterfly from every angle.  

Length of the Butterfly body is 1.7 cm0.71 inch) and the wings stretch to 5.5 cm(2.2 inch).

Size of the lucite block is 8.2x8.2x1.5 cm(3.2x3.2x0.6 inch).

Each one comes with a cardboard box for easy storage.

Weight of the block is 130 g and 160 g with packing box.

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.

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

The butterfly wings are disassembled and laminated before embedding into the material so as to retain 100% of the original color(colors of butterfly are mostly powder particles attached to the wings), otherwise up to 90% of the color will be dissolved into the Lucite material after production and the wings become almost transparent.

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

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White Dragontail - Lamproptera curia

Wingspan: 33 ~ 43 mm

This is one of the smallest Papilionidae. There are two distinctive gray grouper, after a long and narrow wings with a gray spot. After the tail fin sudden talent.

Adults: Fin Show 40 to 45 mm. Tentacles of black. Back in black, head width, abdominal short. Physical ventral pale color. Black Fin; Wings in the district are a gray zone, half-transparent, vein stria very clear. After narrow wings, tail process expertise, in the Papilionidae is unique, oblique central front end have a sudden gray zone, but less than at the end of the termination process, and within the margin of the Central issued a short gray zone convergence; The outer edge of microwave, incalculable white-tail process until the end. Hip-winged butterflies after convolution with white Long Hair. Fin - before and after gray fin base, and the remaining positive similar.
Host: Gyrocarpus (Hernandiaceae) Sinomenine Illigera platyandra, leaf and plant Sinomenine I. cordata.
Biology: adult beetle intense vibration, after reaching the level of the rear wings, and generally along forest tracks from the ground where flight is not high, often-forward or back to. They are greedy water, the surface on the air, swinging pretty close to dragonflies, butterflies are called Dragonfly. It is strange from the abdominal end of a regular rhythm of the water injection. Both sexes love visiting suction honey, honey before Diptera suction kept vibration, swinging tail also kept stopping to spend abdominal tall wearing a neck brace. In peacetime flying soon, it is difficult to capture. Egg yield host plant leaves in the back. Larvae of the habitat in the back. Young larvae in leaves open one side of the hole feeding habits. Aging larval host plants in the vicinity of other plants Under surface of leaf pupate. This species of tropical and subtropical species.
Distribution: Sichuan, Yunnan, Hainan, Guangdong, Guangxi, Hong Kong; India, Bhutan, Myanmar, Thailand, Cambodia, Vietnam, Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines