The American Snout butterfly’s name owes to long labial palps thought to mimic dead leaves. Papaj et al. show that its camouflaged underside is polymorphic with a sexually dimorphic pattern that alternates seasonally with a sexually monomorphic pattern.
https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/731294

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An #AmericanSnoutButterfly taking a break on a blade of grass.

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