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More than 1500 species of the wild flora and fauna of Zihuatanejo.
All photographs were taken in Zihuatanejo, Mexico, and the surrounding area.
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Butterflies of Zihuatanejo
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Four-spotted Sailor
Dynamine postverta
Dynamine postverta, the Four-spot sailor, is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It is found throughout most tropical and subtropical areas of Central and South America, from Mexico south to Argentina and Paraguay. The habitat includes primary rainforests, humid deciduous woodlands, scrubby grassland and farmland at altitudes up to about 900 metres. The larvae feed on Dalechampia species. They are slug like, with tiny rosettes of spines on the back
From Wikipedia article at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamine_postverta, which is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike License 3.0.
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![Four-spotted Sailor (Dynamine postverta) - Female](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/0fc8a7_2ffb83994dc6433a9491e2fa6d9480b1~mv2.jpg/v1/fill/w_321,h_320,q_90/0fc8a7_2ffb83994dc6433a9491e2fa6d9480b1~mv2.jpg)
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