Hill Country Butterflies of Sri lanka
Sri Lanka is home to 245 species of butterflies with 23 of these being endemic to the island. ... of the wings, bright colours on their wings. usually plain brown, grey, white or black and often with obscuring patterns of zigzags or swirls. Butterflies are insects in the macrolepidopteran clade Rhopalocera from the order Lepidoptera, which also includes moths. Adult butterflies have large, often brightly coloured wings, and conspicuous, fluttering flight. Butterflies are beautiful, flying insects with large scaly wings. Like all insects, they have six jointed legs, 3 body parts, a pair of antennae, compound eyes, and an exoskeleton. The three body parts are the head, thorax (the chest), and abdomen (the tail end). The butterfly's body is covered by tiny sensory hairs.