Number: 66
Family: Pieriidae
Sub-Family: Pieriinae
Sub-Family: Pieriinae
Species: Appias albina darada (Felder & Felder, [1865])
Common name(s): The Common Albatross
Photography locations: Cuc Phuong N.P. (Ninh Binh Prov.), Hanoi City
A puddle party in May at Cuc Phuong N.P., mostly Appias albina and A. galba
Males are attracted to damp patches of ground where they swarm in mixed-species aggregations during the dry season
Hundreds of butterflies demonstrating selectively gregarious behavior at mud
Some males Appias albina darada
A puddle party with some Appias galba (Indian Orange Albatross)
Note male upperwings almost all white
Female Appias albina nectaring
A vagrant/migrant female Appias albina seen on March 2013 in Hanoi City
Male Appias albina nectaring
Upperwing is almost all white except a narrow black border at costa of FW
The genus Appias is represented in Vietnam by 9 species (and 11 taxa) - lyncida, olferna, galba, albina, paulina, indra, pandione, lalassis and lalage (Monastyrskii & Devyatkin, 2016).
Males are attracted to damp patches of ground where they swarm in mixed-species aggregations during the dry season
A puddle party with some Appias galba (Indian Orange Albatross)
Note male upperwings almost all white
Upperwing is almost all white except a narrow black border at costa of FW
Another male, completely white above
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