Eluina Eighty-eight, Diaethria eluinaimage credit: Paulo Neis

Eluina Eighty-eight, Diaethria eluinaimage credit: Lu Bodaczny

Eluina Eighty-eight, Diaethria eluinaimage credit: Allyson Correia

Eluina Eighty-eight, Diaethria eluinaimage credit: * mateja *

Eluina Eighty-eight, Diaethria eluinaimage credit: Alicia Guzmán Moya

Eluina Eighty-eight, Diaethria eluinaimage credit: Gloria Zelaya

Eluina Eighty-eight, Diaethria eluinaimage credit: alejocock

Habitat: found from Peru to Bolivia and Brazil.
Status: No conservation concerns

The Eluina Eighty-eight (Diaethria eluina), or 88 butterfly, is a peculiar butterfly with a hidden inscription on it. Can you spot it? I guess the butterfly’s name kind of gives it away now…

The creature is black with two blue bars on either wing on its front and then on the underside of its wings reads the “88” in bubble-style lettering! Guess I know what this butterfly would bet on in a game of roulette.

Eluina Eighty-eight, Diaethria eluinaimage credit: Guilherme Bonnes