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The main identifying characteristics of the Arrow Ring Butterfly (Bamboo Eater)

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​ Large species. The forewings are 50 mm long; orange-yellow, with dark brown top corners. There are faintly visible dark brown wavy lines on the inner and middle lines. The outer lines are composed of 5 inconspicuous eye-shaped lines. The outer ring of the eye-shaped lines is edged with gray-black. , there is a smaller light-colored "eye" in the middle, and the outer edge has a dark brown thin edge; what is even more beautiful is that there are 5 ocher black spots on the inner edge of the outer edge with their heads facing inward and tail outwards, which are very similar to the shape of a goldfish. The color spots on the hind wings are similar to those on the forewings. Only the eye-shaped stripes on the outer line are more obvious, the fish-shaped stripes are also larger, and there are ocher black spots on the inner side of the hip angle. In its young stage, it feeds on palm and grass plants and is distributed in Shaanxi, Sichuan, Guangxi and Taiwan.

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