Butterflies of the Galapagos?

[Neil Jones]

In article <v01540b00b35865517068@[209.30.189.117]>
           botany at centurion.flash.net "Sharyn Fernandez" writes:

> Does anyone know if there are any butterflies on the Galapagos Islands? thanks
> 
> Sharyn Fernandez
> Concord CA
> botany at flash.net

Yes, there are 10 species including 3 forms found nowhere else, the
Galapagos Gulf Fritillary (Agraulis
vanillae galapagensis), the Galapagos Shirt-tailed Skipper
(Urbanus dorantes galapagesis) and  Wallengren's Blue (Leptotes
parrhasioides).

-- 
Neil Jones- Neil at nwjones.demon.co.uk http://www.nwjones.demon.co.uk/
"At some point I had to stand up and be counted. Who speaks for the
butterflies?" Andrew Lees - The quotation on his memorial at Crymlyn Bog
National Nature Reserve