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Malayan Crow

Euploea camaralzeman malayica

Photo by Ronald Lo
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Field Notes

Description:

Euploea is a genus of milkweed butterflies. The species are generally dark in coloration, often quite blackish, for which reason they are commonly called crows. As usual for their subfamily, they are poisonous due to feeding on milkweeds and other toxic plants as caterpillars. The latter are aposematically colored to warn off predators from eating them, and the adult butterflies are often mimicked by unrelated species which are not or less poisonous.

Species ID Suggestions

Malayan crow

Euploea camaralzeman

Comments (2)

Thank you Maria for the encouraging comment... :-)
Nice one; especially like the second photo

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