Red Cracker Butterfly - Hamadryas Amphinome
Family Nymphalidae (Brush-footed Butterflies) / Subfamily Limenitidinae (Admirals & Relatives)
Captive live butterfly photographed at Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum, Chicago IL.
Range: Argentina north through tropical America to central Mexico and Cuba. A rare stray to the lower Rio Grande Valley of South Texas.
 
Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum, Chicago. Identified by Doug Taron, Curator of Biology
 
 
              
 
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