Underside of a male Wallace's golden birdwing butterfly (Ornithoptera croesus). This specimen was collected by Alfred Russel Wallace himself on the re

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Underside of a male Wallace's golden birdwing butterfly (Ornithoptera croesus). This specimen was collected by Alfred Russel Wallace himself on the remote Indonesian island of Batchian (Bacan) in 1859.

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Size: 4188px × 2086px
Photo credit: © NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM, LONDON/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No

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