I photographed this butterfly in Pujiang Wildlife park, in the same place where I photographed the Sarcophaga fly. I identified this butterfly to be a member of the Nymphalidae family from its basic shape. However, I couldn’t identify its specific typ due to its folded wings (I couldn’t see the characteristic patterns on its wings this way). Well, an unidentified butterfly like this is not something that I would usually make an individual photograph column for, as there are some other Nymphalidae butterflies in my website and I could’ve just piggybacked this photo in another Nymphalidae blog just like I did with the unidentified ground beetle gubs, which I put together. I didn’t do so, and I specificlly picked this folded-wing photo out to show you guys the backside patterns of the Nymphalidae butterfly, which you don’t see in my other photos. As you can see, this butterfly has relatively brown and grey camouflage colors on the sides of its wings compared to the insides of its wings which are normally extremely colorful. This acts as a protection, ad can prevent others from finding and eating the butterfly as the patterns on the wings resemble a dead leaf, like that of the Kallima inachus butterfly (a rare species of butterfly not found in my area which have wings that actually look like dead leaves).
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