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Cyrestis acilia acilia
Fifth instar larva of Godart's Map Butterfly Cyrestis acilia acilia.
Degraded scrub on the banks of a creek on the campus of Pacific Adventist University outside Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea.
Photograph of adult: http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/140... Photo of the pupa at: http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/147...
Spotted on Jul 1, 2012
Submitted on Sep 22, 2012
6 Comments
Thanks EarlyStages for the reminder. I do have those books - though nothing I've ever wanted to ID has been in there so far! I have not checked to see if they cover ficus. Parson's Butterflies of PNG lists Ficus wassa, F. subulata, and F. robusta as foodplants.
Jeff, certainly not field guides, but a useful reference nevertheless for families treated thus far . . .
http://www.papuaweb.org/dlib/bk1/flora/i...
Wow! Fascinating!
Its a young fig though I don't know which species. PNG is tough - basically no guide books for anything.
Hi Jeff, good to see you here! Did you record or recognize the hostplant?
A Horny caterpillar!