Rusty-Tipped Page Butterfly

Although rusty-tipped page butterflies sport hind wing extensions similar to those of swallowtails, they are placed in the brush-footed butterfly family, Nymphalidae. Their highly modified first pair of legs is used for sensing suitable host plants by taste, rather than for walking. Unlike many rainforest butterflies, which spend most of their time feeding and flying at the canopy level, the rusty-tipped page often flies back and forth across edge vegetation at less than 2 meters from the ground.