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Banded Orange Heliconian Brookside Gardens, Silver Springs, MD Butterfly Click/tap to enlarge Country intro

Banded Orange Heliconian

Brookside Gardens, Silver Springs, MD

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The "Dryadula" is a monotypic genus of the butterfly family Nymphalidae. Its single species is the "Dryadula phaetusa", known as the Banded Orange Heliconian, Banded Orange, or Orange Tiger. The Banded Orange Heliconian is native from Brazil to central Mexico, and in summer it can be found rarely as far north as central Kansas.

Similar species: Moths And Butterflies
Species identified by Lychee
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Uploaded Sep 3, 2014. Captured Jul 11, 2012 22:30 in 12903 Silver Springs Drive, Little Orleans, MD 21766, USA.
  • COOLPIX P500
  • f/5.0
  • 10/1250s
  • ISO160
  • 23.1mm