Havana, June 15 (AIN) Although only 18 are exclusive to Cuba, 177 species of butterflies can be found on the island.
A group of those endemic to Cuba can be found in the province of Camaguey, which includes the Hazel Phoebis (Phoebis avellaneda) butterfly, named in honor to the writer Gertrudis Gomez de Avellaneda according to the web site of the newspaper Adelante.
Native to the capital city of that province is the large and magnificent Metamorpha Stelenes, which proliferates in the summer primarily and often flies at the sidewalk level.
There is also the Cuban Greta, with his transparent wings, which is the king butterfly that makes its way to the coasts of Camaguey after crossing the Atlantic Ocean and continues southward to Latin America. The Senegalese Coffee Butterfly also travels to the province from Africa.
The Major General Agramonte Provincial Museum has one of the widest collections of these insects, consisting of more than 1,500 exotic national specimens.
Thank you for highlighting this marvel of nature. I love butterflies. And they are the only species that I know of that can spend their life flitting from here to there and maintain enduring admiration.
I wish to add that in Cuba there are 500 species of fish. Diving an old battered sunken wreck one day I got taken by surprise. Suddenly the most magnificent school of shimmering golden transparent fish circled spiraling over my head. First clockwise and then counterclockwise they swam. And just as sudden as this enormous school appeared they were gone. But not without leaving a twinkling from the tail end of the last little glimmering fin waving goodbye.
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