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Orange-Barred Sulphur Male
Phoebis philea
16.7038, -92.855
Field Notes
Description:
Very large yellow and orange Butterfly. It had been hit by a car on the Highway. The second picture shows the underside of the wing. This is the male. (http://www.dallasbutterflies.com/Butterflies/html/philea.html). Family Pieridae.
See spotting of the female: http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/117776056/fullscreen.
Habitat:
Heavy shrubbery along the highway between San Cristobal de Las Casas and Tuxtla Gutierrez, km 11.5, 865 meters.
Species ID Suggestions
Spotted for Missions
Photographed
PublishedSeptember 12, 2013
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