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Orange lacewing

Cethosia penthesilia

Description:

A delightful and delicately patterned butterfly. Lacewings occur throughout Asia in various species, C. penthesilia is one of only two lacewings found in Australia.

Habitat:

spotted in the Melbourne zoo butterfly enclosure.

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2 Comments

MartinL
MartinL 10 years ago

You'll have to go a lot further north to see this one. Curious how the larvae has the same colors.

Mark Ridgway
Mark Ridgway 10 years ago

That's a gem Martin.

MartinL
Spotted by
MartinL

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Spotted on Aug 18, 2013
Submitted on Aug 20, 2013

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