Real Life Cycle of  Butterfly (Leopard Lacewing - Cethosia cyane) specimen encased in amber clear lucite material (in 4 separate blocks). The specimens are crystal clear, indestructible and transparent. Safe, authentic and completely unbreakable product put real Butterfly right at your fingertips!

Anyone can safely explore the Butterfly from every angle.

It is clear enough for microscope observation.

Size of the lucite block is:

3 pieces- 7.3x4.1x2.0 cm(2.9x1.6x0.8 inch)

1 piece- 7.5x7.5x2.0 cm(3.0x3.0x0.8 inch)

Each set comes with a cardboard box for easy storage.

Weight of the lucite blocks is 500 g and 700 g with packing box.

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

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.

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It shows the complete metamorphosis life cycle of butterfly. The immature stage, called the larva, looks completely different from the adult. The larvae are called caterpillars. They feed continuously and go through a number of moulds until the final larval stage is reached. They then stop feeding and search for a suitable place to pupate. In the pupal stage, the reorganization and transformation of the larval tissues into adult structures takes place. The tissues of the immature insect are broken down and small group of cells called imaginal discs, which have been present since the egg first hatched, grow and develop into adult systems. To protect the pupa, the final larval stage spins a cocoon. The adult frees itself from the pupal skin and cocoon by using its jaws, legs. ***

Block 1: Eggs

Block 2: Caterpillar (6 labels: head, true legs, thorax, abdomen, spiracle, prolegs)

Block 3: Chrysalis (2 labels: twig, cremaster)

Block 4: Butterfly(6 labels: thorax, head, antenna, legs and feet, wing, abdomen)

Leopard Lacewing - Cethosia cyane

Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Nymphalidae
Subfamily: Heliconiinae
Genus: Cethosia
Species: C. cyane

The Leopard Lacewing (Cethosia cyane) is a species of heliconiine butterfly found in South Asia.

Male

Upperside tawny, in fresh specimens a rich reddish tawny. Fore wing: anterior and apical two-thirds black, the margin of this colour waved and irregular, following a line dividing the cell longitudinally and circling round to near the posterior angle; a short, broad, oblique, white-bar beyond apex of cell, the veins crossing it and a spot in interspaces 3 and 4 black; a transverse indistinct row of small spots and a terminal series of <-shaped lunules white. Hind wing: three or four spots just beyond apex of cell, a subterminal row of spots and the termen broadly black, the last with a series of white lunules as on the fore wing. Underside variegated with red, white, pale blue, ochraceous and black; the terminal margins of both wings broadly black with white lunules as on the upperside; in the middle of each lunule a short white streak from the margin; cilia alternately black and white. Fore wing: the cell with transverse bands of red, blue and black; the base and disc below the cell red spotted with black, followed by pale blue, ochraceous and black; the white oblique band as on upperside, beyond it a transverse incomplete row of lanceolate white marks, with three black spots in each, followed by a subterminal ochraceous band paling inwardly. Hind wing: the base and cell pale blue and red, crossed by several broken incomplete black lines, then alternate bands of white and ochraceous, two of each; the outer white band narrow and marked in each interspace with three black spots arranged as a triangle. Antennae, head and thorax dusky brown; abdomen above tawny, beneath white.

Female

Similar to the male in markings, but the tawny groundcolour replaced by pale greenish white, somewhat brownish on the upperside of fore wing, the extent of black on this wing larger. Underside with all the markings paler than in the male the red at the base of the wings replaced by brownish yellow on the fore, white on the hind wing. Antennae, head and thorax dusky brown; abdomen dusky above, white beneath.

Larva

"Cylindrical, purplish-black segments with alternate yellow and crimson bands. Head armed with two long spines, segments with dorsal and lateral rows of fine spines. Feeds on Passiflora, July.