The pupa is silver.

(Photo: courtesy of Martin Purvis, Sydney, New South Wales)

The adult butterflies are brownish black, with white spots on the edge of the wings, which join together to form a white band near the tip of the forewing. The adult butterflies have a wing span around 6 cms.

(Photo: copyright Dave Britton, Australian Museum)

The eggs are white and barrel-shaped. They are laid on young shoots.

This species is found as various subspecies across Asia and the south Pacific, including:

and as the subspecies tulliolus along the east coast of Australia in

Further reading :

Michael F. Braby,
Butterflies of Australia,
CSIRO Publishing, Melbourne 2000, vol. 2, pp. 603-604.

Johan Christian Fabricius,
Entomologia systematica emendata et aucta,
Volume 3, Part 1 (1793), p. 41, No. 123.

Peter Hendry,
An introoduction to Crows of the World, the Euploeas (Lepidoptera: Danainae),
Butterflies and Other Invertebrates Club, Metamorphosis Australia,
Issue 56 (March 2010), pp. 13-25.

Elly Scheermeyer,
Overwintering of Three Australian Danaines: Tirumala hamata, Euploea tulliolus tulliolus and Euploea core corinna,
in S. B. Malcolm and M.P. Zalucki (Eds),
Biology and Conservation of the Monarch Butterfly,
Natural History Museum of Los angeles County, Los Angeles 1993, pp. 345-354.

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(updated 20 August 2011, 5 August 2024)