Checklist Number
59.0137
This is a central American species and a single specimen was captured in 1937 in a greengrocer's shop in Rotherhithe, east London. It is believed to have been accidentally imported in the pupal stage amongst bananas, the specimen being attributed to the Jamaican subspecies delila.
Family: | Nymphalidae | Rafinesque, 1815 |
Subfamily: | Heliconiinae | Swainson, 1827 |
Tribe: | Heliconiini | Swainson, 1822 |
Genus: | Dryas | Hübner, [1807] |
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Species: | julia | (Fabricius, 1775) |