Specimens of 'Dead leaf' butterflies and Trogonoptera brookiana, from the Wallace Collection


Display showing camouflage of Dead leaf butterflies, Kallima sp., in their resting position and wings open alongside Trogonoptera brookiana (bottom)./nSpecimens collected by Alfred Russel Wallace now held in the Natural History Museum London


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