Foreign Wanderer: Female, dorsal

Class:

Animals (Animalia) - Jointed Legs (Arthropoda) - Insects (Insecta)

Order:

Butterflies & Moths (Lepidoptera)

Family:

Brown Butterfly (Papilionoidea: Nymphalidae) iNaturalist Observation

Species:

Foreign Wanderer (Danaus plexippus)

This Photo:

Female, dorsal

Other names:

Monarch or Wanderer

Thank you Alan Melville for confirming the id of this species for us

General Species Information:
Found on Ellura (in the Murray Mallee, SA), the Adelaide Hills and elsewhere
While this butterfly comes from the Americas. It's only food source is the introduced Milkweed.
There is some discussion if it arrives under it's own steam to the Eastcoast of Australia. Even so, it wouldn't be able to propogate without the weed. Regardless, it's not native to SA.

This species is classed as

If (Foreign Introduction)

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