Canary Cleopatra / Canary Brimstone Butterfly

Gonepteryx cleobule

Canary Islands endemic variation, the Canary Cleopatra butterfly has small pink-red spots on the very edge of its yellow wings and a tiny spot mid-wing. Like other Brimstones, the female is greeny-yellow. On the topside the male (above) is darker yellow with pale orange on the forewing and dark orange vein-like lines. It is a large butterfly, between a Red Admiral and a Monarch in size.

African Migrant Butterfly

Catopsilia florella

A smaller yellow butterfly than the Cleopatra, the African Migrant butterfly has a pink-red narrow border and tiny spots mid-wing (similar to but different from the Clouded Yellow). The male (above) is a pale yellow and the female, like the Brimstones, is pale greeny-yellow although they are not the Brimstone angular shape. As the name suggests, they originate from Africa, but they have now settled also on the Canary Islands.