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 malachite (Siproeta stelenes) is a neotropical brush-footed butterfly (family Nymphalidae). The malachite has large wings that are black and brilliant green or yellow-green on the upperside and light brown and olive green on the underside. It is named for the mineral malachite, which is similar in color to the bright green on the butterfly's wings.
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 malachite (Siproeta stelenes) is a neotropical brush-footed butterfly (family Nymphalidae). The malachite has large wings that are black and brilliant green or yellow-green on the upperside and light brown and olive green on the underside. It is named for the mineral malachite, which is similar in color to the bright green on the butterfly's wings. The malachite is found throughout Central and northern South America, where it is one of the most common butterfly species. Its distribution extends as far north as southern Texas and the tip of Florida, to Cuba as subspecies S. s. insularis (Holland, 1916), and S. s. biplagiata, and south to Brazil.
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Location: Montegrotto, Padua, Italy
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