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Indian Purple Sapphire
kctsang

Indian Purple Sapphire (Heliophorus indicus)

A beautiful little butterfly, found this in Bhutan. It's range is fairly wide from Northern India to Myanmar, maybe into North Thailand.
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Habitat
Hill Forest, low altitude
Location
Bhutan
Date taken
27/09/2017
Scientific name
Heliophorus indicus
Equipment used
Sony a9, 100-400mm, TC2x
delia todd
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Mmmmmm...... lovely!!!

The upper and underwings are such beautiful colours, yet so different!!!

You've taken two superb pictures of them KC - very well done my friend. Thanks so much for showing them to us.
 
Kits
A lovely close up of this very pretty butterfly.
 

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