Info The Kingdom of Butterfly - Tour Guide in Indonesia
Indonesia is the largest archipelago in the world comprising 17,508 islands with an area of 3.1 million km2 marine range ( Tuwo , 2011) . Conditions tropical climate with sunshine throughout the year provides a great opportunity to develop optimally for the flora and fauna that are in place . One very interesting fauna because of its beauty is the butterfly . The island is separated by oceans allow for differences in butterfly species in western and eastern Indonesia . LIPI predict approximately ± 2,500 species of butterflies scattered throughout the Indonesian archipelago . Among these about 42 % are endemic species ( DFS , 2003) . Bantimurung is one of the distribution centers butterflies are very famous in the world so that Alfred Russell Wallace gave the nickname " The Kingdom of Butterfly " while visiting the area on his expedition in 1890 . Wallace found about 256 species of butterflies were thought to not only come from Bantimurung but it has been mixed with the but...