Help Identify

Anne Kilmer viceroy at gate.net
Mon Oct 6 08:29:47 EDT 1997


ernst neering wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I know there is a publication about two Nymphalid species that feed on
> passionfruit foliage. I will look it up and send you the reference.
> I know one is Dione or Agraulis vanillae, a species that I often saw in
> Suriname. The adult is bright orange with silvery shiny markings on the
> onderside of the wings. Of the other one I do not remember the name. I will
> contact you again soon.

Three in my part of the world. Julia (Dryas julia), zebra longwing 
(Heliconius charitonius) and A. vanillae. Gulf fritillary is what we 
call it. It is not, in fact, a fritillary. 
A. vanillae is definitely the one we're looking at here. 
Anne Kilmer
South Florida


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