Abstract
As a species of butterflies, the blue tiger (Tirumala limniace) folds its wings to utilize the cooling power of wing scales when overheated by sunshine. However, it remained unclear what the cooling system looks like. It is found that light scales, dark scales, and scales on wing veins and margins are distinctly different in the nanostructure. The scale hierarchy of T. limniace diversifies through a single wing at the micro to nano‐level on both surface and section, corresponding to the different cooling efficiency (see pages 1761‐1772). Photo provided by Yu‐Jie Wang.
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