Peacock Butterfly (Vanessa Io) Small 280×320 Medium 560×640 Large 896×1024 Download Tiff Original 2101×2400 | (3.1 MB) Description "The Peacock Butterfly is very easily recognized by the peacock's eyes - to the number of four, one on each wing - which have gained for it the name it bears." Keywords bugs life stages, butterflies moths lepidoptera, insects, kbutterflies Galleries Lepidoptera: Moths and Butterflies Source: Hazlitt Alva Cuppy PH.D., Editor Beauties and Wonders of Land and Sea (Springfield, OH: Mast, Crowell & Kirkpatrick, 1895)