The Black Jezebel or Common Jezabel (Delias nigrina) is a butterfly

Butterfly

A butterfly is a mainly day-flying insect of the order Lepidoptera, which includes the butterflies and moths. Like other holometabolous insects, the butterfly's life cycle consists of four parts: egg, larva, pupa and adult. Most species are diurnal. Butterflies have large, often brightly coloured...

 in the Pieridae

Pieridae

The Pieridae are a large family of butterflies with about 76 genera containing approximately 1,100 species, mostly from tropical Africa and Asia. Most pierid butterflies are white, yellow or orange in coloration, often with black spots...

 family. It is found along the eastern seaboard of Australia

Australia

Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...

, from Queensland

Queensland

Queensland is a state of Australia, occupying the north-eastern section of the mainland continent. It is bordered by the Northern Territory, South Australia and New South Wales to the west, south-west and south respectively. To the east, Queensland is bordered by the Coral Sea and Pacific Ocean...

, through New South Wales

New South Wales

New South Wales is a state of :Australia, located in the east of the country. It is bordered by Queensland, Victoria and South Australia to the north, south and west respectively. To the east, the state is bordered by the Tasman Sea, which forms part of the Pacific Ocean. New South Wales...

 to Victoria

Victoria (Australia)

Victoria is the second most populous state in Australia. Geographically the smallest mainland state, Victoria is bordered by New South Wales, South Australia, and Tasmania on Boundary Islet to the north, west and south respectively....

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The wingspan

Wingspan

The wingspan of an airplane or a bird, is the distance from one wingtip to the other wingtip. For example, the Boeing 777 has a wingspan of about ; and a Wandering Albatross caught in 1965 had a wingspan of , the official record for a living bird.The term wingspan, more technically extent, is...

 is 40 mm.

The upper sides of the males are white with black tips containing white spots on the fore-wings, and narrow black margins around the hind-wings. The females on top are grey with wide black edges, which contain white spots near the apex of the fore-wings.

The larvae feed on Amyema cambagei, Amyema congener

Amyema congener

Amyema congener, commonly known as the Variable mistletoe, is a species of flowering plant, an epiphytic hemiparasitic plant of the family Loranthaceae from eastern Australia...

, Amyema miquelii

Amyema miquelii

Amyema miquelli is a species of flowering plant, an epiphytic hemiparasitic plant of the family Loranthaceae, found attached to several species of Australian eucalypt...

, Amyema quandang

Amyema quandang

Amyema quandang is a species of hemi-parasitic shrub which is widespread throughout the mainland of Australia, especially arid inland regions, sometimes referred to as the grey mistletoe.-Description:...

, Dendrophthoe curvata, Dendrophthoe glabrescens, Dendrophthoe vitellina

Dendrophthoe vitellina

Dendrophthoe vitellina, commonly known as Long-flowered- or Apostle Mistletoe, is a hemiparasitic plant of the Loranthaceae family of mistletoes. The genus Dendrophthoe comprises about 31 species spread across tropical Africa, Asia, and Australia...

, Muellerina celastroides and Muellerina eucalyptoides.

External links

• Australian Insects
• Australian Faunal Directory
• Delias Nigrina Markings