#metalmark

[herpsandbirds]

Gyas Jewelmark or Gyas Sarota Metalmark (Sarota gyas), family Riodonidae, Peru

photograph by Nick Volpe

[vexwerewolf]

[fropomolo]

Lancer callsign: Patchwork

Frame moniker: JingYu (Metalmark)

Patchwork was destined to live and die unremarkably maintaining production for SSC subsidiaries in the icy steel mills. However, the fire of revolution sparked new opportunities though with great cost. Read the full lore on my Patreon .

[onenicebugperday]

Maylay red harlequin butterfly, Paralaxita damajanti, Riodinidae

Photographed in Malaysia by Nicky Bay // Website // Facebook

Shared with permission; do not remove credit or re-post!

[crevicedwelling]

this little butterfly is Sarota acantus, a fingernail-sized work of art found in Central and South America. you can tell this one is a female since she’s walking on all six legs—male metalmarks have a greatly reduced first pair!

[melodeelaine]

Blue-rayed Metalmark - Manu, Peru

[celestial-games]

Metalmarks have gotta be the most underrated family of butterflies. They are by far the least diverse family in Europe, and Asia, and Africa, and Oceania, and the United States, but then once you go into Mexico and Central America and South America the diversity explodes and there are hundreds of weird and unusual colorful species. The way they hold their wings fully outstretched just feels so confident compared to many other butterflies. Here is an assemblage of common species from the USA and Mexico :]

Species pictured: Nais metalmark, Mormon metalmark, fatal metalmark, blue metalmark, bumblebee metalmark, banner metalmark, white-rayed metalmark, red-spotted pixie, white-tipped metalmark, and the species with proportions that made it impossible to fit into a neat collage, the aptly named (and beautiful) long-tailed metalmark (go look up irl pictures of this species I promise you won't be disappointed)

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[mothpawbs]

ughhh i've been working on this for weeks and i'm so glad to be done with it lmao. anyways these are the designs for all of my oc queens!

had to do a way bigger watermark than usual because my wof art's getting reposted to pinterest and instagram without permission or credit 👀