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Unidentified butterfly - Anartia jatrophae
Copyright © 2009 Jane Schurr

Unidentified butterfly - Anartia jatrophae
Charlotte County, Florida, USA
In some of the pictures the brown area was lighter reddish brown
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Contributed by JeanEvoy on 9 September, 2009 - 5:45am
Last updated 24 September, 2009 - 6:30pm

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… David J. Ferguson, 24 September, 2009 - 6:30pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Butterflies (excluding skippers).
… David J. Ferguson, 24 September, 2009 - 6:28pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from ID Request.
… v belov, 24 September, 2009 - 5:10pm login or register to post comments

I don't know of any species of butterfly (anywhere)
that has this pattern normally. The shape of the wings and venation implies to me that it may be a White Peacock - Anartia jatrophae, with a really unusual aberrant pattern.
… David J. Ferguson, 9 September, 2009 - 8:39pm login or register to post comments

 
Anartia sp. (jatrophae)
The same thought crossed my mind also - a white peacock aberration!
… Bill Reynolds, 10 September, 2009 - 12:24pm login or register to post comments

EXOTIC?
Was this critter collected in Florida from the wild?...or photographed in an exhibit - a zoo/botanical garden perhaps?
… Bill Reynolds, 9 September, 2009 - 3:49pm login or register to post comments

 
As far as I know it was in th
As far as I know it was in the "wild".
… JeanEvoy, 9 September, 2009 - 6:54pm login or register to post comments

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