Euryphura concordia

[Trehopr1]

Here is a gorgeous species from Malawi Africa.

[daveuk]

A magnificent species. That's a great specime too.

[wollastoni]

Very nice ! And a rare colour for butterflies.

[africaone]

actual name is Euryphura concordia

[Trehopr1]

Thank you so much for that correction africaone !

[livingplanet3]

Very interesting - I don't think I've ever seen a butterfly that particular color. I'm red-green color blind, but it appears to be a shade of pink(?) to me.

[daveuk]

It is pinkish blue. I have a pair. The colour is very unusual. The underside is really beautiful too. Some suggest that it mimics Crenis pechuelli. The colouring is very similar in these two species though C pechuelli is smaller.
Sorry to hear about your Red/Green colour blindness. Presumably you have heard of Enchroma glasses? Believe they are expensive but I have seen many instances on You Tube where they seem to work.

[livingplanet3]

It is pinkish blue. I have a pair. The colour is very unusual. The underside is really beautiful too. Some suggest that it mimics Crenis pechuelli. The colouring is very similar in these two species though C pechuelli is smaller.
Sorry to hear about your Red/Green colour blindness. Presumably you have heard of Enchroma glasses? Believe they are expensive but I have seen many instances on You Tube where they seem to work.

Well, I should point out that red-green color blindness (dichromatism) is actually the normal situation for the vast majority of mammals, as it is advantageous for most, and is how our distant ancestors would have seen the world. Trichromatic color vision (in humans, at least) is merely a recent evolutionary novelty.

[daveuk]

Very interesting & informative. Was unaware of the situation regarding our distant ancestors.
Did you or would you try those glasses anyway?

[livingplanet3]

Very interesting & informative. Was unaware of the situation regarding our distant ancestors.
Did you or would you try those glasses anyway?

I'd try the glasses, if I got the opportunity, but I'd probably find it rather strange to suddenly not have my color perception focused primarily on the blue and yellow parts of the spectrum. In contrast, someone with typical (trichromatic) color vision would likely be quite surprised to see how intense blues and yellows look to a dichromat. I've wondered if this might be why morphos have always been one of my favorite groups of butterflies. To me, their blues might look even more amazing than they would to those with "normal" color vision. I suppose that the only way to get some idea of whether this is true, would be to use a filter such as the EnChroma glasses. From what I've read about them however, their effectiveness for many is debatable.

[daveuk]

Interesting. Morphos look pretty incredible to me so can't imagine what they must look like to you!!
Have heard about mixed results for EnChroma but have seen some really touching videos on YouTube of when they actually worked.

[joachim]

a friend of mine said he never would drive a red car beause red is the color of the communist. Some time later he had a red mercedes and said, it´s green.
Maybe you should try the glasses.
I tried to make fotos with infrared to see wether there is a difference in apperance. So far I saw no difference. More intering would be how plants and butterflies look under under ultraviolet light but cameras which can repoduce pictures are too expensive for me. However, inscects can see no red but ultrviolet instead. So, how does a male see an attractive female?

[daveuk]

My pair from the Democratic Republic of Congo