Basilarchia (=Limenitis) arthemis astyanax (F.) male

This species has four annual broods here in Louisiana. Here is the proof based upon 2,037 wild captured adults. Red stars on phenogram indicate brood peaks.

Typical females upperside is more greenish, unlike the bluish males.

Occasionally a natural wild cross between watsoni and astyanax occurs. Here is one I captured in my UV light trap. The underside of this cross displays the numerous red spots that occur on astyanax, but are not found upon watsoni.

Vernon,

That purple number is an absolutely incredible find !

I love the species in general but, that specimen is the epitome of "extra cool".

The purple one does not real at all, looks like heavily colour edited photo

Do you think the UV light might have done something to the color? U can often hear about UV light altered Ornithoptera, so why not other species. I mean, since u said yourself u caught it in a UV light trap.

Here e.g. are 689 butterflies of C. cecrops, (all 689) adult butterflies captured in UV light traps which I published about in 2005. In fact more recently, I have captured over 400 cecrops, just this one species in a single night in my light traps here at my home location. That same night there were 56 other species of butterflies/skippers in my light traps that very same night. This is not an unusual event for me using my automatic capture light traps. Yes, I do know the reason for this, but I have explained these matters for decades on the web. I do not use white sheets to collect with, and I never turn off the light traps no matter what. I don't need to lie about such things to make myself important.