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Dryadula phaetusa (Halloween longwing)

Synonyms: Colaenis deleta; Colaenis lutulenta; Papilio ater; Papilio phaetusa

Wikipedia Abstract

Dryadula is a monotypic genus of the butterfly family Nymphalidae. Its single species, Dryadula phaetusa, known as the banded orange heliconian, banded orange, or orange tiger, is native from Brazil to central Mexico, and in summer can be found rarely as far north as central Florida. Its wingspan ranges from 86 to 89 mm, and it is colored a bright orange with thick black stripes in males and a duller orange with fuzzier black stripes in females. This species is unpalatable to birds and belongs to the "orange" Batesian mimicry complex.
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Infraspecies

Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  .25 grams
Speed [1]  8.277 MPH (3.7 m/s)

Prey / Diet

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Attributes / relations provided by
1FLIGHT PHYSIOLOGY OF NEOTROPICAL BUTTERFLIES: ALLOMETRY OF AIRSPEEDS DURING NATURAL FREE FLIGHT, ROBERT DUDLEY AND ROBERT B. SRYGLEY, J. exp. Biol. 191, 125–139 (1994)
2HOSTS - a Database of the World's Lepidopteran Hostplants Gaden S. Robinson, Phillip R. Ackery, Ian J. Kitching, George W. Beccaloni AND Luis M. Hernández
3Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
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Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0