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JAM016
Red-Spotted Purple Butterfly
Hunlock Creek PA
2008
by Jennifer

If nothing ever changed there would be no butterflies



Limenitis arthemis, the red-spotted purple or white admiral, is a North American butterfly species in the cosmopolitan genus Limenitis.

For most of us in the eastern U.S., there are four common species of dark blue and black butterflies. Three of those species are swallowtails, but one of them isn’t. At first glance, the red-spotted purple (Limenitis arthemis astyanax) looks similar to the dark blue and black swallowtails. However, if you give it a second glance, it is easy to tell apart because it lacks the swallowtails!

Although the red-spotted purple used to be considered its own species, it is now considered a subspecies and has been combined with the white admiral (Limenitis arthemis arthemis). The species as a whole is sometimes called the red-spotted admiral (not to be confused with the red admiral which is...

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