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Heliconius ismenius, the Ismenius tiger or tiger heliconian, is a butterfly of the family Nymphalidae found in Central America and northern South America. They are abundant as far south as Ecuador and Venezuela and as far north as southern Mexico, Guatemala and Belize. [2] H. ismenius are more commonly called the tiger-striped long wing butterfly.
Dryadula is a monotypic genus of the butterfly family Nymphalidae. Its single species, Dryadula phaetusa, known as the banded orange heliconian, banded orange, or orange tiger, is native from Brazil to central Mexico, and in summer can be found rarely as far north as central Florida. Its wingspan ranges from 86 to 89 mm, and it is colored a ...
The red middorsal stripe bears white (sometimes black) oval-shaped spots, one per segment. [ 12 ] [ page needed ] It has six rows of black spines and has a pair of long, clubbed spines on the head. [ 13 ] [ page needed ] [ 11 ] The chrysalis is mainly shiny white, with small black spots, a variable amount of brown markings, and orange and gold ...
Monarch butterflies flying and sipping nectar from milkweed flowers. The adult's wingspan ranges from 8.9 to 10.2 centimetres (3.5 to 4.0 in). [10] The upper sides of the wings are tawny orange, the veins and margins are black, and two series of small white spots occur in the margins. Monarch forewings also have a few orange spots near their tips.
Its wingspan ranges from 82 to 92 mm, and it is colored orange (brighter in male specimens) with black markings; this species is somewhat unpalatable to birds and belongs to the "orange" Müllerian mimicry complex. [5] This butterfly is a fast flier and frequents clearings, paths, and margins of forests and woodlands.
Phylogeny of Heliconius butterflies inferred from mitochondrial DNA sequences. Mol. Phylogenet. Evol. 3:159-174. and other papers. Glassberg, Jeffrey Butterflies through Binoculars, The West (2001). Guppy, Crispin S. and Shepard, Jon H. Butterflies of British Columbia (2001). James, David G. and Nunnallee, David Life Histories of Cascadia ...
Anthocharis euphenoides, the Provence orange tip, is a species of butterfly in the family Pieridae. It is found in the Iberian Peninsula (missing in the southwest and northeast), in the south of France (from the eastern Pyrenees to the Alpes-Maritimes) and in Italy in the Abruzzo. There are a few records from Switzerland (Southern Ticino).
The regal fritillary (Speyeria idalia) is a striking nymphalid butterfly found among some of the remaining tallgrass and mixed-grass prairies in the east-central United States. This prairie-specialist butterfly has a characteristic deep orange color and unmistakable dark hindwings with two bands of spots . On the female, both bands of spots are ...