This beauty is actually known as a Malachite Butterfly or Large Emerald Butterfly. I only saw it because of some small movement that caught my eye. As you can see it is really well camouflaged. This was taken in Rio de Janeiro on the way back from seeing the Christ the Redeemer statue in Rio. This was taken with a Nikon D70 and a AF-S DX VR Zoom-Nikkor 18-200mm f/3.5-5.6G IF-ED lens.
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