Danaid Eggfly (male)

Rautenbachf, thank you once again for the information. I like the idea of having a mystery person around who can teach things when needed :D Great for me, great for PN :) Have a nice weekend // Tina

Reading about this butterfly gives me gray hair. Here is an article that some ppl here will find interesting: http://cadra.wordpress.com/2013/05/07/butterfly-mimicry-rings-a-case-of-natural-selection/comment-page-1/ I dont know how scientific it is though. One conclusion after reading through (I admit, not every word of the article) is that some butterfly species mimics the Hypolimnas misippus... But I dont understand why!

Great Daniele, thank you very much! Oh, your spotting must have reached a respectable age for a butterfly! I hope he/she made a lot of pretty babies :D

Chief, I was actually looking at your eggfly spotting, and that gave me the name in the first place. But the one you suggested has not been spotted "down here" from what I have read so far. One example: "The great eggfly butterfly, Hypolimnas bolina (L.) is widely distributed throughout the Oriental region (Corbet & Pendlebury, 1992), with odd Afrotropical records from Kenya, Ethiopia (Larsen, 1996), Mauritius (Williams, 2007) and Madagascar (Paulian, 1956). In Seychelles, a single male was seen on Alphonse Island on the 1 April 2007 (Betts, 2009). A additional unverified Seychelles recorded was made by Hill, et al. (2002) on Marianne Island. But thank you for helping out :)