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Crimson Rose
Atrophaneura hector
I wasn't able to get very good pictures of this mobile butterfly, though I saw plenty of them in Mysore. A characteristic of the species, which separates if from its mimic, the female of the common mormon (Papilio polytes), is its bright red body.


This next would have been a brilliant picture if the gardener hadn't walked round the corner and scared the butterfly away before I could get any closer...



It was resting in the shade shortly before the evening fell but once disturbed it flew off, not to return.