Elodina tongura Tindale, 1923 Pipeclay Pearl-white PIERINAE,   PIERIDAE,   PAPILIONOIDEA

Don Herbison-Evans (donherbisonevans@yahoo.com) and Stella Crossley

(Specimen: courtesy of the The Australian Museum)

The upper surfaces of the wings of the adult butterfly are white with black wingtips. The undersides are white with grey wingtips, and an lemon-yellow tinge at the base of each fore wing. The butterfly has a wingspan of about 4 cms.

The species is found in Australia in

Northern Territory, and islands in the Gulf of Carpentaria.

This species was originally listed as a subspecies of Elodina perdita Miskin, 1889.

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Further reading :

Norman B. Tindale,
On Australian Rhopolocera,
Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia,
Volume 47 (1923), pp. 350-351, and also Plate 30, fig. 27.

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(updated 18 October 1999, 29 December 2023)