Red-spotted Jezebel Female, profile, Released | Red-spotted Jezebel Female, Under Forewing | |||||
Class: | Animals (Animalia) - Jointed Legs (Arthropoda) - Insects (Insecta) | ||||
Order: | Butterflies & Moths (Lepidoptera) | ||||
Family: | White & Yellow Butterfly (Papilionoidea: Pieridae) iNaturalist Observation | ||||
Species: | Red-spotted Jezebel (Delias aganippe) | ||||
This Photo: | 🔍Female, profile🔎 | ||||
Other name: | Wood White | ||||
Thank you Thomas Mesaglio & Karen Weaving for confirming the id of this species for us General Species Information: Found on Ellura (in the Murray Mallee, SA) and elsewhere The female we caught was ~25mm long with ~75mm wingspan. A brightly coloured butterfly with red, yellow and white splashes on black. One of the most spectacular inverts we've seen. Did someone loose their 1970's kitchen curtains? Allen Sundholm said "Freshly emerged !" | |||||
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