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Tailed Orange Butterfly

Pyrisitia proterpia

Description:

Orange, the same color as the wall, but it looks different because of flash.

Habitat:

Garden in suburbs

1 Species ID Suggestions

bayucca
bayucca 10 years ago
Tailed Orange
Pyrisitia proterpia Pyrisitia proterpia (live adults, page 2)


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2 Comments

Jorge4
Jorge4 10 years ago

Thaks again to bayucca

bayucca
bayucca 10 years ago

Pieridae, Pyrisitia proterpia, sometimes also called Eurema proterpia. But I would go with the proposed name of my link from the expert site if BOA.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eurema_prot...

Jorge4
Spotted by
Jorge4

Yucatán, Mexico

Spotted on Dec 5, 2013
Submitted on Dec 5, 2013

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