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Mountain White Butterfly

Leptophobia aripa elodia

Description:

Small White Butterfly with a tint of yellow/lime color, 2 dark small spots, top of wings has a dark color corner (triangle).

2 Comments

Thank you so much dor the ID, bayucca. The second black spot is to recognizer when it comes to my garden.... ; )

bayucca
bayucca 10 years ago

Pieridae, Pierinae, Leptophobia aripa elodia. I guess the second black spot is "dirt" or a defect. I did not find any with 2 black spots.
http://butterfliesofamerica.com/t/Leptop...
Nice Tico butterfly for ID 5400.

Costa Rica

Spotted on Jun 15, 2013
Submitted on Aug 12, 2013

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