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Delias nigrina (Common jezebel)

Wikipedia Abstract

Delias nigrina, the black Jezebel or common Jezebel, is a butterfly in the Pieridae family. It is found along the eastern seaboard of Australia, from Queensland, through New South Wales to Victoria. The wingspan of both the male and the female is 56 mm. The upper sides of the males are white with black tips containing white spots on the forewings, and narrow black margins around the hindwings. The females on top are grey with wide black edges, which contain white spots near the apex of the forewings.
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Prey / Diet

Prey / Diet Overlap

Competing SpeciesCommon Prey Count
Delias aganippe (Wood White)3
Delias argenthona (Scarlet Jezebel)4
Delias aruna (Golden Jezebel)1
Delias harpalyce (Imperial white butterfly)3
Delias mysis (Union Jack)3

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Attributes / relations provided by
1Species Interactions of Australia Database, Atlas of Living Australia, Version ala-csv-2012-11-19
Abstract provided by DBpedia licensed under a Creative Commons License
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