Mother of Pearl Butterfly Genuine Framed Specimen

Madagascar has been doing its own thing evolutionarily for about 88 million years, and the results are consistently stranger and more beautiful than anywhere else on the planet.

The Salamis duprei, known as the Mother of Pearl butterfly, is native to Madagascar and earns its name honestly. The wings carry a shifting, iridescent quality that changes depending on how light hits them, pale and luminous against deep black-tipped edges. It's the kind of natural object that sits comfortably in a dark aesthetic or alternative interior because it doesn't need to be loud to hold the room. Iridescence in nature is structural colour, light bending through microscopic layers rather than pigment, which means what you're looking at is physics as much as biology. Frame it next to something heavy and it'll still hold its own.

Genuine preserved Salamis duprei butterfly, professionally framed. Origin: Madagascar. Frame dimensions vary slightly per specimen.