It is unlikely that somewhere in the world you can find as many beautiful creatures as butterflies. Since ancient times, these incredible insects were considered symbols of beauty, eternity, youth and mental rebirth. These are real living flowers that are regularly featured in various fairy tales, legends and epos.

What animal or bird will be able to compare in their beauty with butterflies?

Their beauty was considered so unreal that the ancient Slavs told belief, according to which only the most evil and powerful sorcerers were turned into butterflies that sold the soul in order to have such beauty after death.

In many countries, today there has been a more practical attitude towards butterflies. For example, on the expanses of Asia, these insects are considered special delicacy.

Where did the butterflies have such patterns on the wings?

Fantastic patterns on the wings of butterflies are formed by a unique combination of multi-colored microscopic scales of each individual. Due to the special ribbed walls of these scales, sunlight Refracted, displayed on the wings with different colors and patterns.

Attractive patterns on the wings of butterflies make them objects close attention of collectors and entomologists

Because of these features of these wonderful insects, they became a popular object for collectibles.

To date, more than two hundred thousand different species Butterflies.

It is only necessary to add that the concepts of beauty are always subjective, and therefore the places here are distributed randomly - this is rather the list than the rating. Anyway, we bring to your attention a description and photos of beautiful rare butterflieswhich you are unlikely to meet in everyday life.

10 most amazing butterflies in the world

1. Opens our list today Madagascar Uranius.
   Tails, relatively large sizes and print coloring - Business card

   This amazing insect has a relatively large size: his wings will often exceed the nine-ten centimeters. If you study the wings of this unique butterfly under the microscope, you can see that each horn scaway is unique: you will not find a single pair, whose color will be absolutely identical. A distinctive feature of the coloring of the wings of this creation is a special white edging - it is precisely much to determine the uranium. A fantastically bright coloring of the butterfly serves as a formidable warning signal for animals above in the food chain. In the body of Madagascar uranium, there is a sufficient amount of a potent poison to kill a small pich tug.

   Urania - day butterflies. At night, they in huge quantities are going in one place and the pack are arranged for the night.

2. In the second line of our charts, we placed the well-known and familiar to all residents of the CIS countries, which is the admiral butterfly. Admiral - Butterfly, the beauty of which is often underestimated by residents of countries Russian Federation Because of the widespread butterfly in the CIS countries

   Each summer, the sims of the butterflies-admirals rush through the airspace of the CIS countries. Probably, each of us saw her, for many she became the usual symbol of summer. Because of this, many people are difficult to recognize it one of the most beautiful butterflies in the world, but foreign connoisseurs are definitely expressed in her favor. The unique black and white-orange colors and the annual flights to wintering in warm African countries made this butterfly widely known worldwide.

   

3. We will continue our list of beautiful butterflies in the world. And the next paragraph in it will figure the amazing morpho of the Peleida. Morph Peleidis lives in almost all countries of Central and South America: in Costa Rica, El Salvador, Trinidad, Paraguay and Mexico

   Translated from the ancient Greek language, the words "Morpho Peleida" mean "Magnificent Beauty". It seems that once one of the entomologists was so impressed by the bright blue color of her wings framed by a black and white frame with the linations of shades of red and orange flowers, that he could not pick up for this butterfly more suitable name. Unfortunately, this magnificent beauty lives very long: only two to three weeks. Bright coloring serves as a signaling tool during the pairing period, and also scares birds and insects that use it into food.

   A distinctive feature of this species is that Morpho Peledis males live separately from females, groups.

4. One of the most excellent representatives of the detachment of the calculated world is also a peacock eye. Latin name Butterflies are coming on behalf of the īnachis - Tsar Inach and his daughter Io in ancient Greek mythology

   The color gamut of the wings of this butterfly is like admirals. It is also similar to their lifespan, which often exceeds the nine-ten months, and a relatively small span of wings, which is about five and a half centimeters. The main thing a distinctive feature Peacock Eyes. Four color stains on wings, which in the presence of proper imagination can go beyond the eyes. An amazing protective mechanism, visually increasing the size of this butterfly in the eyes of its natural enemies.

   For the winter, the peacock of the eye is clogged into the cracks under the bark of trees, where and waiting for the onset of thaws.

5. Among the inhabitants of our Fatherland, the unusual shape and the colors of their unique wings distinguishes Blue Mahaon - or, as it is also called, the sailboat Maak. Maak's sailboat was named after Richard Karlovich Maak - Russian Naturalist, researcher Siberia and the Far East

   This is an amazing insect, which has indescribable fantastic colors and large wings - their scope reaches a hundred and twenty-five centimeters in males, and about ten centimeters more - in females. On the territory of the CIS countries, this butterfly is considered the largest, while the main area of \u200b\u200bher habitat is the Sakhalin peninsula. The wings of males are painted into a deep emerald green color, the colors of females varies very much. Often these butterflies are settled on the shores of small reservoirs or on open areas immediately after dew drops or rain. Loading flock soars in the sky stunning emerald fireworks.

6. On the sixth place of our list of the most amazing and excellent representatives of the calculation of the calculated, we posted an unusually long butterfly - Madagascar Comet. Thanks to two surprisingly large processions on the wings, Madagascar Comet is often called the longest butterfly in the world - despite the fact that literally in the first days of her life the tails disappear

   The connoisseurs of the wonderful strikes not so much bright coloring of this butterfly, how much the shape of her body and wings. Wings of beauty are continued by two tails with a length of no small twenty centimeters, which serve as an auxiliary tool balancing when flying in the air. Unfortunately, after a rather short time after the appearance of a butterfly to the light, these tails disappear as unnecessary. Thanks to the unusual structure of his body, Madagascar comet received its second name - the African lunar mole. In addition to the shape of the wings, the entomologists also affect their scope, reaching eighteen centimeters.

   

7. Approaching the end of the list, we tried to include all the more amazing representatives of the detachment of scraper. Meet: The real mountain butterfly is Glory Bhutan. The sailboat "Glory Bhutan" lives mostly in highland forests at altitudes up to 2800 meters above sea level and is at the moment it is threatened with disappearance

   Even the most sophisticated connoisseur of butterflies will strike a unique form of her wings, which remotely resemble drakosy. Their scope, it happens, reaches ten centimeters. Each of the wings continues in three small tails, giving them a truly charming look. Fortunately, these butterflies are poisonous and, accordingly, inedible. Potential consignments warn bright red-orange colors and round bright-scarlet stains at the ends of the wings.

   In India, these insects are so revered that they are under strict protection of the state.

8. Troika finalists we open truly unusual creation, which at first glance is even difficult to call a butterfly. Meet: Greta OTO, or a glass butterfly. This unusual insect is widespread in Mexico and Argentina. On the inexperienced view of the inhabitants of the CIS, this butterfly is more like a mosquito

   Fortunately for residents of South and Central America, this is not the case: after all, the wings of this "Komarika" may exceed five centimeters - far from the smallest representative of the detachment of scratched. In the local ecosystem, he plays an extremely important role, because it pollinates most of those growing in this region. poisonous plants. Transparent wings with a bright orange rim flag about a huge amount of toxins accumulated in the body. Having bought the bird is unlikely to live for a long time.

   This butterfly is a storehouse of natural toxins, deadly for the life of those who decide to dine her

9. One of the most valuable copies of the leading entomological museums of the world is, of course, the birds of the Queen of Alexandra. Children of Queen Alexandra - the largest daytime butterfly in the world

   The main area of \u200b\u200bhabitat of this amazing butterfly is the territory of Papua - New Guinea. The male birds have a brighter color, which helps them attract females during the pairing period. Often precisely because of it, they become the object of close attention of entomologists and collectors. In turn, females have larger sizes: their wings will reach thirty centimeters.

10. Complete our small overview of the most beautiful and amazing butterflies of the world we decided to truly an unusual instance. Many have heard about him, but few have seen with their own eyes. This is the prince of Darkness, or just atlas. Some individuals of this amazing view of butterflies reach truly giant sizes.

    In the family of scales, this butterfly is rightfully recognized as the biggest. The largest of officially registered representatives of this species had the scope of wings in two hundred and sixty-two centimeters. Even human standards are a real giant. Patterns on his wings do something resemble the head of the snake, so that in China it was nicknamed with a similar name. At the same time, the life expectancy of the atlas is only ten to eleven days.

    It is not known how many days would the butterfly accommodation live at home, because due to the huge sizes of their breeding, except specialized entomology centers deal, but hardly extend the life of the atlas would have happened for a long time

    A short life is due to the fact that the caterpillar of the atlas in the process of transformation is atrophies the mouth: butterfly exists only due to nutrientswho managed to accumulate to pockery.

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To say unequivocally, what kind of butterfly is the most beautiful, impossible. Many species, and all of them are beautiful in their own way. Especially many of them in the forests of subtropics and tropics. There are decent representatives in Russia.

List of most beautiful butterflies

Prince of Darkness

Amazing not only in size, but also for beauty is the butterfly prince darkness. She has a different name - Pavlin-eyed atlas. It should be noted that there are practically no butterflies in the world larger.

There are a lot of her subspecies. The largest in size is the butterfly emperor. It is known that the caterpillars of this type throughout their life eat the leaves of trees, and turning into a butterfly, continue to exist solely at the expense of accumulated nutrients. The life expectancy of Prince Darkness is only ten days. Amazing and unusual painting of the wings of Pavlin-eyed. At the same time, not only the color, but also the shape of the wing itself looks like a snake head. This serves as a butterfly with animal animals feeding with insects.

Sailboat Queen Alexandra

This butterfly is rightfully considered a valuable instance of any collection of butterflies. They only live next to the village of Pandente on the island New Guinea. The male is smadder, but much more beautiful and brighter. The female scope of the wings can reach twenty-eight centimeters.

The wings of the male are painted with the finest shades of blue and green colors. Externally, they resemble the leaves of a tropical wondrous plant. Their scope usually does not exceed twenty centimeters.

Madagascar comet

Another record holder for wings - Madagascar comet. It is also called Saturn Madagascar, but most often - Lunny Mol.

The scope of the wings of this beauty is eighteen centimeters. If the butterfly is in length measuring, then it will become clear why it was recognized as the longest in the world. Its wings are decorated with twenty-salimetime tails, which often disappear after the first flights. Wings of bright yellow color, and on each of them a large "eye" of brown color.

This species lives only two or three days and leads a nightlife. It is surprising that the digestive tract and the mouth do not have.

Sailboat Maaka

In Russia, Maak's sailboat is the largest representative of daytime butterflies. Their scope of the wings about thirteen and a half centimeters. The butterfly is also called a blue mahaon or the tail of Maak.

At the male, most of the front black wing flickes the point spraying of the green color. Part of the wing without spraying glitters in black. The females are the same many color options that it is almost impossible to find identical butterflies.

The habitat of the tail of the tail - Primorye, the Kuril Islands, Manchuria, North Korea. During the flowering of subalpine plants, these butterflies rise to a height of about two thousand meters in search of food.

Butterfly Agrippina

An amazing butterfly, whose name is Agrippina, lives in wet tropical forests of Brazil. Its full name - Tizania Agrippine. I must say that this is the largest butterfly on the planet. Her body length reaches nine centimeters, and the wingspan are at least thirty centimeters.

During flight Agrippin easily can be taken for the bird. The fact is that her wings on the back of their colors create the illusion of wings. Agrippina - moth, Rarely, who can be able to see it. Read more about the biggest butterflies.

Glory Bhutan

Its name is the butterfly of Glory Bhutan not accidentally. It has an amazing shape of wings and a rare fine beauty. Wings are elongated and in spindy sometimes reach ten centimeters. Rear wings ends with three tails and painted with stains resembling juicy clusters of berries.

Glory Bhutan is a butterfly, living in mountain forests at an altitude of up to two thousand six hundred meters above sea level. Their flight is very slow, but the butterflies are very quickly changing the direction. Their bright color is a warning for predators and testifies to failure.

The most beautiful butterfly in the world

Like any creature creation, the butterfly is worthy of attention. But which of them is the most beautiful, uniquely no one can answer. Everyone decides individually for itself.

At first beauty, it would be possible to put this type of butterflies like a tap or a peacock eye. Their coloring of the wings is just extraordinary. Sailboat Queen Alexandra will delight any scope of their wings reaching up to twenty-eight centimeters.

Among the Russian species, elegant Mahaon can be distinguished and Serizin Montel's unique butterfly. For their flight, a person observes, while holding his breath.

In East Asia, surprisingly on the beauty of the beauty of the Slax. The same oleander brahnik surprises with its unusual pollen overflows.

All this is only a small part of the most beautiful butterflies. However, there is the opinion of the masted scientists about this. The most beautiful in the world was recognized by the Madagascar butterfly of Uraniya. This conclusion was made by the International Congress of Scientists. From the name it is clear that it lives in Madagascar. Its color is unusually picturesque and bright. Black wings of this butterfly cover multicolored flakes, as a pattern of various shades is created.

Urania can often be seen on the covers of books about animals. Collectors highly appreciate representatives of this species for their beauty. It is known that due to extraordinary colors, the wings were used in the eighteenth century for the production of jewelry. Uranium leads a daily lifestyle. The scope of the wings is small, it barely exceeds the centimeter.

The most beautiful and one of the most mysterious insects are butterflies. Scientists still do not fully know the mechanism of their transformation from the caterpillar into flying creatures. And even more so - in such large.

The largest butterfly can be confused with the bird - the wings of the South American tropical scoop can reach the 31st centimeter. This night butterfly, nature endowed it with colossal sizes, but not by beauty - she has a rather pale painting.

South American tropical scoop, or Tizania Agrippina (Thysania Agrippina) - a large night butterfly from the Scoop family. It is the largest butterfly in the world - in 1934 in Brazil, the largest part was caught in the wings of 30.8 cm. A similar copy was caught in 1997 by Mario Callrey entomologist in the north of Peru. Distributed in Mexico, central and South America. It is considered a migrant from the southern regions in Texas.

The second place in the top of the biggest butterflies is insect with the beautiful name of the Hercules Hercules (CoscinoCera Hercules) from the Saturniidae family. The name speaks for itself - the area of \u200b\u200bthe wings is huge - 263 square centimeters. The scope of the wings in females reaches 28 cm. And the color is really similar to Peacock feathers.

Herkles in Australia's peachalism in Australia lives in Australia and on several Islands of New Guinea.

But in third place in magnitude - Attacus Atlas (Attacus Atlas). This butterfly is also called the prince of darkness for poisonous color and activity in twilight clock. Although the butterfly turned out to be completely harmless. Another name is Atlant - for impressive sizes. This butterfly is considered one of the largest and most beautiful in the world. Wings painted in brown, red, yellow, cream and pink colors.

This type of female is also larger than males. The maximum scope of the wings is 26 cm. It is found in the tropical forests of southern China, some countries of Southeast Asia (from Thailand to Indonesia, Java and Borneo).

It is probably the only one of the types of large butterflies, which people learned to use themselves. The silk thread, the satin caterpillar, is used to create silk fabrics, and in Taiwan in the markets you can see original wallets made from large 10-centimeter cocoons.

Among the largest butterflies, scientists also distinguish the poultry of Queen Alexandra or Queen Alexandra ornithoptera (Ornithoptera Alexandrae). This is a daytime butterfly, which relates to the family of sailboats (Papilionidae) - is named after the wife of the King UK Edward Seventh - Princess Danish. Apparently, the monarch's wife was as beautiful.

The male bird of the queen Alexandra can be called the king of butterflies. Its huge wings with a scope of 170-200 mm shine green and blue flowers. Thickest than other poultry plates are wings, similar to the leaves of a tropical plant.

The female is different from the male. It is much larger: the scope of its huge wings reaches 280 mm - it is more than any other day butterfly. But in brightness and beauty, it is inferior to the male: on her wide dark-brown wings, a bright ornament from cream and yellowish "smears" of various shapes spread out. A peculiar pattern of the lower side of the wings with a contrasting wide darkening along the veins allows you to immediately distinguish the female of the poultry of Queen Alexandra from other types of birds.

This is very rare view Butterflies and inhabit it exclusively in the area of \u200b\u200bthe Popond Tetta Mountains, Papua New Guinea.

If in England, the butterflies were called in honor of the princesses, then in Russia the largest representative of these insects is named after the Russian naturalist and is called Maak's Sailor (Papilio Makii) refers to the Sailboat family or Cavalers (Papilionidae); Inhabit on average Amur region, Primorye, North Korea, Manchuria, on the Kuril Islands.

In these places, the butterflies are often found in short and mixed forests, less often in spruce-fir. In the period when subalpine plants bloom, the butterflies rise to the mountains up to 2000 m above sea level: looking out for food, they fly off the peaks in a circle. It is difficult to believe that the distribution area of \u200b\u200bthis wonderful sailboat extends to 54 ° of the northern latitude, on which Tynda and North Sakhalin are located. Every year, two generations of Maak's tails are appearing annually: the spring butterflies are small, bright and bright, and summer - twice as much and darker. The female is larger than the male, the scope of its wings reaches 135 mm, while the male is 125 mm.

A large butterfly of a sailboat Antima (Papilio Antimachus) with a scope of the wings 25 cm. This species, on the contrary, males are larger than females. The color of the wings varies from ohlogen to orange and red-yellow.

Common in wet forests of Africa (Cameroon, Liberia, Angola, Congo, Zaire, Uganda, Nigeria, etc.). Females prefer to stay in the tops of the trees and very rarely descend down. Males also hold on to flower plants.

Argema Mittrei - Madagascar Comet She is the same mole. Beautiful night butterfly in the world. It is a record holder in the size of the wings 140-160 mm.

Butterfly dwells only in wet rainforests of the African Island Madagascar