The Butterfly Arc is the first butterfly house to be built in Italy. Butterflies of the rain forests of the Amazon, Africa and Asia are free to fly. The Butterfly Arc is also home to small lizards and insects. The Great Mormon (Papilio memnon) is a large butterfly native to Southern Asia that belongs to the swallowtail family. It is widely distributed and has thirteen subspecies. The female is polymorphic and with mimetic forms.


The Butterfly Arc is the first butterfly house to be built in Italy. Butterflies of the rain forests of the Amazon, Africa and Asia are free to fly. The Butterfly Arc is also home to small lizards and insects. The Great Mormon (Papilio memnon) is a large butterfly native to southern Asia that belongs to the swallowtail family. It is widely distributed and has thirteen subspecies. The female is polymorphic and with mimetic forms.


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Location: Montegrotto, Padua, Italy
Photo credit: © Ferdinando Piezzi / Alamy / Afripics
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