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Colombia: Home to the world's largest variety of butterflies

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Juan Guillermo Jaramillo, agronomist and Colombian nature photographer, is the co-author of an inventory that led to Colombia being recognized as having the widest variety of butterfly species in the world. The Checklist of Colombian Butterflies identifies 3,642 different species, which makes up 19.4 percent of the known global varieties.

Added on the 03/09/2021 14:23:06 - Copyright : AFP EN

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