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Dina Yellow, male

Pyrisitia dina

Photo by The MnMs
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Field Notes

Description:

Family: Pieridae
Subfamily: Coliadinae
Identification: Male orange-yellow with very narrow black border on outer and costal margins of forewing. Female yellow with black at forewing tip. Underside of both sexes with three black spots on hindwing. Wet-season (summer) form paler colored.
Wing Span: 1 1/4 - 2 1/4 inches (3.2 - 5.7 cm).

Habitat:

Forest edges, brushy fields, open forest.

In fact these were hanging around in the hottest and sunniests parts of dirtroads in Yucatan.

Notes:

The description is from:
http://www.butterfliesandmoths.org/species/Pyrisitia-dina

Reference Links:

Yucatan Butterflies

Species ID Suggestions

Tailed orange (female wet season form)

Pyrisitia proterpia

Reference Link
KarenL
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Comments (6)
Arun
Thank you and Welcome to HUNTER mission
Arun
Please consider putting this spotting in the ‘Hunter’ mission at http://www.projectnoah.org/missions/8463465
The MnMs
Karen, I changed the ID to Pyrisitia sina, which is mentioned as Yucatan species in a web site I used to ID the butterflies. But it might as well be proserpia..I leave it up to experts to figure it out :-)

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PublishedSeptember 21, 2011

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