Red-spotted Jezebel
S3, Female, dorsal
Red-spotted Jezebel
S3, Female, profile
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| Red-spotted Jezebel S3, Female, dorsal | | Red-spotted Jezebel S3, Female, profile | | ||
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 | 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: | 🔍S1, Male, profile🔎 | Other name: | Wood White | Thank you Thomas Mesaglio (TheBeachConber) & Karen Weaving for confirming the id of this species for us General Species Information: Found on Ellura (in the Murray Mallee, SA), the Flinders Ranges 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 !" To separate out the genders Don Herbison-Evans said "The females have an additional black spot near the centre of each forewing."
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