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go-NEP-tuh-ricks clee-oh-PAT-ruh
Wingspan
♂ 58 - 72 mm, ♀ 60 - 74 mm
Checklist Number
58.014
go-NEP-tuh-ricks clee-oh-PAT-ruh
Wingspan
♂ 58 - 72 mm, ♀ 60 - 74 mm
Checklist Number
58.014
Several individuals of this species were captured in the late 1800s, and their data labels indicate they were taken from Ventnor, Isle of Wight in 1870, Sandown, Isle of Wight in August 1873, Aldeburgh, Suffolk in 1896 and Forfar in June 1887. An individual was also caught at Feock, near Falmouth, Cornwall in September 1957. More recent records include an individual seen on 27th July 1981 in a garden in Temple Ewell, Kent and a male seen in Jersey on 10th August 1986. This species is not considered to be migratory and their presence has been attributed to passage by ship.
| Family: | Pieridae | Swainson, 1820 |
| Subfamily: | Coliadinae | Swainson, 1820 |
| Tribe: | Gonepterygini | |
| Genus: | Gonepteryx | [Leach], [1815] |
| Subgenus: | ||
| Species: | cleopatra | (Linnaeus, 1767) |
Description to be completed.
This distribution status of this species is unknown.
| 1.3 Vagrant |
Description to be completed.
No conservation action is relevant for this species.
Description to be completed.
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