Another (or the same?) Common Buckeye in our backyard garden: wings open, from above. While I didn’t get a good, wings-down shot in the past two days, s/he couldn’t have posed any better than this!
Identification from the BAMONA page — http://www.butterfliesandmoths.org/species/Junonia-coenia — "Upperside is brown. Forewing with 2 orange cell bars and 2 eyespots; part of white subapical band appears in the largest, lower eyespot. Hindwing has 2 eyespots; upper one is largest and contains a magenta crescent. Underside of hindwing is brown or tan in the wet season (summer) form and rose-red in the dry season (fall) form."
It’s fascinating to me (particularly after reading a book on cellular evolution) how specific these characteristics are (and, therefore, how specific are the biological/physiological “instructions” programmed in the DNA):
• forewing has 2 orange cell bars and 2 eyespots
• part of white subapical band appears in the largest, lower eyespot
• upper hindwing eyespot is largest and contains a magenta crescent
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