Dryas iulia, Julia butterfly Description
Julia Heliconian butterfly (Dryas julia Fabricius), taken summer 2004 at the Smithsonian National Zoological Park's Pollinarium exhibit (a butterfly garden). Copyright © 2004 by Steven G. Johnson, donated to Wikipedia under the GFDL. (Species was identified by comparison with this Dryas Julia page.)
Date 13 August 2004 (according to Exif data)
Author Steven G. Johnson https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Stevenj
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Julia-heliconian-butterfly.jpg
Dryas iulia, commonly called the Julia butterfly, Julia heliconian, the flame, or flambeau, is a species of brush-footed butterfly. The sole representative of its genus Dryas, it is native from Brazil to southern Texas and Florida, and in summer can sometimes be found as far north as eastern Nebraska. Order: Lepidoptera, Family: Nymphalidae, Tribe: Heliconiini, Genus: Dryas, Species: Dryas iulia (Fabricius, 1775).
Synonyms:
Alcionea
Colaenis
Dryas julia