LONDON: This butterfly has not been photoshopped. It is exactly half male and half female, a very rare condition known as gynandromorphy. A volunteer at the Butterflies exhibit at the academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University, Chris Johnson, has seen much of his share of butterflies but this one is to stand out.
Johnson, who saw and identified the butterfly as half-male and half-female, said,”It slowly opened up, and the wings were so dramatically different, it was immediately apparent what it was.”
Soon after the butterfly got out of its chrysalis, it opened its wings and viewers saw that its two rights wings were brown with yellow as well as white spots; the spots being characteristics of a female. The other two left wings contained blue, purple and dark green colorings of males.
At a moment it was identified as a butterfly found in the tropical rain forests of Southeast Asia. In order to investigate further, Entomology Collection Manager Jason Weintraub was called in. Weintraub immediately confirmed Johnson’s suspicion. The butterfly was Lexias paradalis and had an unusual condition named as bilateral gynandromorphy.
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