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Common Brimstone

Gonepteryx rhamni

Photo by arne.roysland
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Field Notes

Description:

Males have a yellow wing colouration and females having a greenish-white wing colouration. Both males and females have brownish spots in the discoidal cell of each wing, pink head and antennae, and a thorax covered in white hair.

Habitat:

It thrives on grassy and flowery meadows.

Notes:

Norwegian name: S⁠itronsommerfugl

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