Objects of Curiosities
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11 Black & White Butterflies in Capsule Glass
€1,380.0011 Black butterflies spotted with white ANTENOR in a brass globe globe.
This globule globe worked brass adds to the whole a touch of decoration very "mid-century".
The Antenor butterfly is a very large butterfly with large tails with a wingspan of 120 mm to 140 mm, black color spotted with white. It is present in Madagascar, only in the south and the west of the country...
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10 Butterflies URANIA RIPHEUS in Capsule Glass
€1,470.0010 URANIA RIPHEUS butterflies in globe capsule.
This beautiful butterfly diurnal comes from Madagascar. It is endemic to this island and its caterpillar, yellow with long black hairs, is toxic.
Because it feeds only on a family of lianas whose sap is toxic.
This butterfly has incredible metallic colors and many "tails" lighter.
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12 Butterflies from Pacific Islands H66cm
€3,720.0012 magnificent bird-winged butterflies in a capsule globe.
The most common bird-winged butterfly - Ornithoptera Priamus - is actually not so common, because it is only found in a few small islands in the Pacific: Papua New Guinea, Southern Moluccas, Solomon Islands...
Islands where their forests diminish year after year under the influence of men.
This is why this protected species will be delivered with a CITES.
Only the males have these bright colors, the females are even larger, but brown in color.
They are so remarkable that our specimens now come from a farm in Indonesia.
