Where are most butterflies distributed?

Butterfly, a general term for Arthropoda, Insecta, Lepidoptera and Cladocera. There are about 14000 species in the world, most of which are distributed in America, especially in the Amazon river basin. Butterflies are usually brightly colored, with many stripes on their bodies, rich colors and various spots on their wings and bodies. The largest butterfly can spread its wings about 28 ~ 30 cm, and the smallest is only about 07 cm.

The colorful patterns on butterfly wings are amazing. On different butterfly wings, American photographer Sanvid actually photographed a full set of Latin letters from to and Arabic numerals from 0 to 9. There are many digital butterflies on the mountains 800 meters above sea level in tropical America. The reverse side of its wings has digital patterns such as 89, 88, 98 and 80.

Butterfly "88" belongs to a species of Papilionidae, distributed in South America, with about 40 species. Named after the figure "8" of the lower wing. Once selected as one of the "Eight Most Beautiful Butterflies in the World".

There is a beautiful and peculiar butterfly "Fluorescent Papilio" in China. This butterfly only grows on an island in the southeast of Taiwan Province Province. This beautiful butterfly in the sun, with the change of light angle, its color presents all kinds of wonderful colors, one moment flashing rare green light, the other turning into brown metallic light, the other shining like gold, and the other suddenly turning into orange and purple, which is extremely charming.

There is a long-standing saying that butterflies like to steal cream and milk, so people say that they are elves with colorful wings and like to steal cream, so they are called "butterflies". The above legend is also reflected in the German name of butterfly "milchdied", which is equivalent to the English word "Milk-Thief", meaning milk thief.

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