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Numilia Firewing

Catonephele numilia

Photo by Dan Doucette
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Field Notes

Description:

There is sexual dimorphism in the adults, with the males being black with six orange dots on the dorsal surface of the wings, whereas females are black with a light yellow band across the centre of the fore wings.

Habitat:

Atlantic coast rainforest

Notes:

I spotted this at Caratinga Biological reserve.

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Catonephele numilia

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Comments (2)
Dan Doucette
Thanks, you're right! The 2 missions are in line in my choice of missions, must have clicked on the wrong one. I've changed it now, thanks for heads up.
The MnMs
may be you meant it for a butterfly mission, not a flower mission? is very pretty! :-)

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Butterflies & Moths of the World

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PublishedMay 29, 2011

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