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Black spotted Pierrot Butterfly

Tarucus balkanicus nigra

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Description:

Male & Female Black spotted Pierrot Butterfly (Tarucus balkanicus nigra)

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Noah Ranger +1
bayucca
bayucca 10 years ago
Black-spotted Pierrot
Tarucus balkanicus nigra http://www.ifoundbutterflies.org/250-tarucus/tarucus-balkanicus


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4 Comments

Noah Ranger
bayucca
bayucca 10 years ago

Should be "balkanicus" with a "k", do not know why there is a "k", though.

Seema Swami
Seema Swami 10 years ago

@bayucca Thanks for id.

Noah Ranger
bayucca
bayucca 10 years ago

Lycaenidae, Polyommatinae, Polyommatini, Tarucus sp. and looks like being Tarucus balkanicus nigra. Please, verify!!
http://species.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tarucu...

OnengDyah
OnengDyah 10 years ago

Lovely butterfly..:)

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Seema Swami
Spotted by
Seema Swami

Maharashtra, India

Spotted on Aug 14, 2011
Submitted on Feb 10, 2014

Spotted for Mission

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