Caterpillars are big, beautiful as a rule, bright colors, with contrasting stripes and four fake eyes in the front. The tail has a distinctive horn. There is an assumption that these spots are these caterpillars mimic the glasses of the Cobra. In Latin species name means pig. Caterpillar this beautiful butterfly on his head is like process trunk, so the Brits call it elephant Brazhnik. The name was given in honor of the hero of mythology: Elpenor is a friend of Odysseus, who was returning with him from Troy; died after falling from the roof of the Palace sorceress CIRCE. When you stay with CIRCE in the evening, on the eve of departure in the underworld, he became drunk to sleep on the roof of the house, fell and broke his neck.
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