Tiger-mimic Qeen (Lycorea halia discreta)

Maranguape, CE, Brazil.

 

It's a male with hair pencils everted to disperse sex pheromone.

 

Kingdom: Animalia

Phylum: Arthropoda

Class: Insecta

Order: Lepidoptera

Superfamily: Papilionoidea

Family: Nymphalidae

Subfamily: Danainae

Tribe: Danaini

Subtribe: Euploeina

Genus: Lycorea Doubleday, [1847]

Species: L. halia (Hübner, 1816)

Subspecies: L. h. discreta Haensch, 1909

Trinomial name: Lycorea halia discreta

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