Color Coordinated is a by Darren Fisher which was uploaded on June 3rd, 2013.
Color Coordinated
A beautiful Red Poppy with a coordinated Postman buttefly on a late Spring day. ... more
Title
Color Coordinated
Artist
Darren Fisher
Medium
Photography/ Digital Art
Description
A beautiful Red Poppy with a coordinated Postman buttefly on a late Spring day.
The Postman butterfly has large long wings with an orange stripe down each forewing. It is poisonous and has red patterns on its wings. They tend to look similar to the species Heliconius erato. Two features found on the underside help to distinguish H. erato from H. melpomene�H. erato has four red dots where the wing attaches to the thorax while H. melpomene has three and the yellowish white stripe on the underside reaches the margin of the hindwing in H. erato but ends before reaching the margin in H. melpomene
There are many morphs of this butterfly throughout Central and South America. The geographical variation in patterns has been studied using linkage mapping and it has been found that the patterns are associated with a small number of genetic loci called genomic "hotspots".Hotspot loci for color patterning have been found homologous between co-mimics H. erato and H. melpomene, strengthening evidence for the parallel evolution between the two species, across morph patterns.
I added effects and textures so the image would have the look of a painting.
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June 3rd, 2013
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Comments (12)
Vadim Levin
Darren, the colors contrast and composition are just great in your photograph. Your image has been featured at the Life group. Congratulations.
Nadine and Bob Johnston
Really like this, so voted and as its one of our very FAVORITES out of hundreds today, Featured it in the group ARTISTS NEWS and Published it in the Internet publication of the same name.......
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