Danaid Eggfly

Hi Nitin. Please reorder the titles, you have the scientific name twice. The first title is reserved for the common name. Thanks.

Very pretty butterfly.

Joe, not the one who suggests: the system does not permit that (for good reasons); anybody else who agrees can click +, included the user. The user still has to enter the ID details in the correct fields. There might be a button to automatically accept Common and scientific names coming in the next update of the site.

Thanks Daniele. I had no idea indeed :) So one ID suggestion is +1, then +2 and so. The original spotter puts those numbers? Or the one who suggests?

You may add any information, Joe! More important you make the "+" ;-)... The longer you look at this one, the more differences you notice. But I don't think a bird has so much time to think about the ID and wups... deli or "dead" is coming. A really fascinating example for a mimic, although not as tricky as in neotropical Heliconius.

Nuwan's been here (I guess!), so it now stands at +3 :-)

Thanks for your detailed addition Joe! Are you familiar with our ID suggestion voting system on Project Noah? I've added my vote to bayucca's suggestion, and it now stands at +2. At +3, the spotting will automatically leave the Unidentified list.

Plus, if I may add, the black spot on vein 7 differs from the black spot on vein 3 in the male D. chrysippus So Danaid Eggfly it is, female.

:-) Lovely picture by the way, nitin :-)

I always thought that mimic is something for the birds, not for the IDer...

Indeed, and I think the black spot position on the hindwing too... Ah, mimics :-)

I know what, the large white spot at the apex of the forewing, that was also always my problem. And we have a lot of wrong IDs on the web again!!

You're right bayucca, something was "bugging me" about the Danaus chrysippus ID :-)

Hypolimnas misippus, female (!). I almost stumbled over this one, thinking all the time of a Danaus chrysippus.