Clipper
Parthenos sylvia · Butterflies
Clipper
Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden, 7 February 2026
A Clipper in the butterfly house at Fairchild, a Southeast Asian species of forest and river edge from India to New Guinea, where it is a strong, fast glider along the streams.
The pale blue-white panels on a near-black ground give it a stained-glass look that is fairly distinctive among butterfly-house residents. Named for a sailing ship rather than for cutting anything, and it comes in several regional colour forms from blue-green to brown. This one is the pale blue form of the Philippines.
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