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idk if anyone gives a Single fuck but i’m a butterflies enjoyer and i’m fairly positive this is a female plain tiger/ african monarch butterfly (danaus chrysippus) :]

i was originally thinking a male monarch (thinner veins that could be blown out from the black/white contrast, black hindwing spots that could’ve remained) and from the looks of it sometimes monarch butterflies have bigger White Spots on their forewings? but not usually. but they also have a black band at the bottoms of their forewings, and they also have black bodies, both of which i very much think would have come through, but in the gifs there is no separation between the fore and hindwings and the body is nearly completely missing bc of the contrast

then i thought a female common diadem, which maybe ! but the sort of lace-y pattern on the edges of the wings looked like they wouldn’t be so stark/mostly black in this contrast, and again, the body is dark (male common diadem butterflies look Entirely different from females so it is not even a consideration) the black spots on the topside of the female's hindwings looks to be too far up for the more relaxed position of the butterfly in the gif, I think if it were a common diadem those spots would be hidden in the gif butterfly’s pose. they also have prominent labial palps that look to be absent from the gif butterfly

plain tigers look rather similar to the female common diadem, plain tigers have the least amount of sexual dimorphism among these butterflies listed previously, they look nearly identical but ! males have an additional black spot on the hindwing (similar placement of a male monarch, they’re scent glands) which the one in the gif looks to be missing ! they also ! have orange abdomens that I would say pretty well matches their wings and could easily be blown out in the black/white contrast !

happy saiki sunday (image descriptions under the cut)