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Posted: 30 Jan 2008

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butterfly •
Danaidae •
Ditrysia •
Papilionoidea •
Insecta •
Danaus plexippus •
Lepidoptera •
South Australia •
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Butterfly

Butterfly
Rapid Bay, Fleurieu Peninsula - any lepidopterologists around who can tell me what this guy is called?

Thanks, Nighthawk3! It is indeed a Wanderer or Monarch (Danaus plexippus plexippus), a species introduced to Australia in the mid-1800s together with the exclusive food plant of its caterpillars, the milkweed family (Asclepiadaceae).
cf.
www.samuseum.sa.gov.au/page/default.asp?site=1&id=1350
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