Green Butterfly Papilio Phorcas Swallowtail Genuine Framed Specimen

Entomology and the dark aesthetic have always been comfortable neighbours. From Victorian mourning culture to the cabinets of curiosities that inspired half the gothic interior design you've ever admired, dead beautiful things under glass have a long and honourable history.

The Papilio phorcas, also known as the Apple Green Swallowtail, comes out of Central Africa with wings the colour of something you'd find pressed into an old naturalist's journal, that unusual mint-to-apple green that reads almost unreal in person. Bits & Bugs sources and mounts genuine specimens, and this one arrives ready to hang, a piece of natural world strangeness that earns its wall space in any horror, macabre, or dark aesthetic space without trying. Real wings. Real insect. Actually dead.

Species: Papilio phorcas. Origin: Central Africa. Frame made from recycled materials, 14.5cm x 14.5cm x 5cm. Genuine framed specimen.