haakpatroon papilio ulysses butterfly

Butterflies are in many beautiful colors. This beautiful blue butterfly is a tropical butterfly. I only know this butterfly from pictures, photos and the zoo. You can find this one in New Guinea, Australia, the Moluccas and the Solomon Islands. Despite this is not a Dutch butterfly, the bright blue / green shiny colors appealed to me so much that I wanted to crochet it. This is a butterfly of the family of the Pages, just like the Papilio Machaon. The Papilio machaon can be seen but is rare in the Netherlands.