Gonepteryx Collection

Brimstone, clouded yellow, brown hairstreak
Common brimstone, Gonepteryx rhamni 1, clouded yellow, Colias croceus 2 brown hairstreak, Thecla betulae 3, Meleagers blue, Polyommatus daphnis 4, and black hairstreak, Satyrium pruni 5

Common brimstone, Gonepteryx rhamni
Common brimstone butterfly, Gonepteryx rhamni, caterpillar and pupa (Buckthorn butterfly, Papilio rhamni). Illustration drawn and engraved by Richard Polydore Nodder

Lofty bath white, brimstone and bath white
Lofty bath white, Pontia callidice, brimstone, Gonepteryx rhamni, and bath white, Pontia daplidice. Handcoloured steel engraving by the Pauquet brothers after an illustration by Alexis Nicolas Noel

Moorland clouded yellow, cleopatra and pale clouded yellow
Moorland clouded yellow, Colias palaeno, cleopatra butterfly, Gonepteryx cleopatra, and pale clouded yellow, Colias hyale

Curtis British Entomology Plate 173
Lepidoptera: Gonepteryx rhamni var. (Brimstone) [Plant: Melica unifora (Wood Melic-grass)] Date: 1824-39

Illustration, Rhopalocera -- Thais Cerisyi, Gonepteryx Cleopatra, Euchloe Belemia, Zegris Eupheme, Argynnis Laodice, Vanessa Levana, Vanessa Ichnusa, Spilothyrus Lavaterae, Pamphila Nostrodamus

Gonepteryx rhamni, brimstone
Plate 2 from Illustrations of British butterflies and their larvae, with the plants on which they feed, by Theo Johnson, 1892

Papilio eubule, brimstone butterfly
Illustration of a brimstone butterfly by John Abbot, Tab 211, Volume 16 from the Abbot Collection held in the Natural History Museums Entomology Library

Brimstone by John Curtis (1791 - 1862) from British Entomology

Butterflies of the family Pieridae
Mounted specimens of the brimstone, (Gonepteryx rhamni) and cleopatra, (Gonepteryx cleopatra) butterflies. Both these species have colour forms which vary from very pale yellow to a deep yellow-orange

Papilio ecclipsis, hoax butterfly species
This insect was uncovered as hoax by John Curtis. It is infact a European brimstone butterfly with patches carefully painted on its wings. Specimen from the Linnean Society photographed by the NHM

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