Semperi Swallowtail Butterfly
by AnnaJo Vahle
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8.000 x 8.000 x 25.000 inches
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Title
Semperi Swallowtail Butterfly
Artist
AnnaJo Vahle
Medium
Painting - Acrylic On Hardwood Board
Description
Semperi Swallowtail Butterfly
This is an acrylic painting on an eight inch square gessobord. I had a little trouble deciding what to paint on this fairly small hardboard. I decided that a simple butterfly might make a good subject.
I originally photographed this butterfly at the Butterfly Rainforest. It is inside the Florida Museum of Natural History. This is in Gainesville, Florida on the University of Florida campus.
I am not a specialist in the field of butterflies, but I believe this to be a Semperi Swallowtail Butterfly. Atrophaneura Semperi is a species of butterfly from the palionidae family that is found in Indonesia, Malaysia and the Philippines. It is the type species for the genus.
The wingspan is 12 to 15 cm. The wings are black. The body has red hairs. The underside of the hind wings contain some red markings. Females are dark-brown with light pink markings on the upside of the wings.
Collectors have found the red-bodied swallowtails difficult to kill. Pinching the thorax, a method which kills most butterflies, is withstood and apparently only stuns the butterfly temporarily.
The eggs are simple. The larvae resemble those of other Toidini. Fleshy spine-like tubercles, often with red tips, line the caterpillars' backs. Their bodies are dark red to brown and velvety black or shades of grey with a pattern of black lines. Chrysalis are camouflaged to look like a dead leaf or twig. They are attached by a girdle and an anal pad. Adults are nectar-feeding.
Many species of red-bodied swallowtails show aposematism, and serve as models for Batesian mimics.
Swallowtail butterflies are one of the most beautiful of all butterflies and includes the incredible birdwings among their 550 species. They take their name from the the �forked tail� that some of them have on their hind wings.
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August 9th, 2015
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Bernadette Krupa
AnnaJo, absolute beautiful acrylic painting colors, details and composition "Semperi Swallowtail Butterfly"! Congrats on Feature - Collectors Gallery - 11/06/2016!! L/F