La Palma Brimstone
Gonepteryx palmae RETURN TO INDEX

This ridiculous picture really is a La Palma brimstone. When I ran after this particular butterfly on the Canary Island of La Palma I believed (as the then current edition of Tolman believed) that it was a subspecies of Cleopatra. Since then it has become a species in its own right and this video frame will have to count as my picture of it! You don't need any better picture than this to identify the butterfly. If it is a brimstone species and it is on La Palma, it is G. palmae - if it is anywhere else, it is not. Simple!