Great Eggfly (male)

Description:

Beautiful black Butterfly with three white spots on either upper wing (which helps identify this as a male as the females do not have these white spots). The underside has a noticeable white stripe running roughly parallel to the body with a white dot at the top of it. There is also another two distinct rows of large white dots near the top of the wing.

Habitat:

This lovely Butterfly landed on this tree which was right near the edge of the waste water wetlands.

Notes:

Thank you Daniele for identifying this lovely Butterfly! A great piece of reading about this butterfly evolving an immunity to a bacteria that was killing the males, in a very short space of time: "Within 10 generations that spanned less than a year, the proportion of males of the Hypolimnas bolina butterfly on the South Pacific island of Savaii jumped from a meager 1 percent of the population to about 39 percent." (http://www.berkeley.edu/news/media/relea...) Further reading: http://bie.ala.org.au/species/urn:lsid:b...