male
(Specimen: courtesy of the Macleay Museum, University of Sydney)
Don Herbison-Evans (
donherbisonevans@yahoo.com )
&
Stella Crossley
(updated 4 August 2007)
The Caterpillar is grey and green with white dorsal stripe, and numerous raised black spots. When resting, it normally lies along the midrib of a foodplant leaf.
The foodplants are said to be:
The female adult butterflies have white forewings with black edges containing white spots, and yellow hindwings with black edges which may contain yellow spots.
The male butterflies are white with black tips to the forewings, which also have two black subapical spots.
Underneath, the sexes resemble their upper sides, but with a yellow ground colour rather than white. Both sexes have a wingspan of about 5 cms.
The species occurs from India to Samoa, including :
as well as in the north and east of Australia, including
Further reading :
Michael F. Braby,
Butterflies of Australia,
CSIRO Publishing, Melbourne 2000, vol. 1, pp. 325-326.
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