[jdoherty]

Originally Posted by aeshna

Hi jdoherty,

I believe I was the member that i.d. it as Wood White.

I've just had a look at the Millennium Butterfly Atlas, Asher et al, and the Wood White is widespread from the top of Northern Ireland to the south of Eire. In fact there appears to be more records from Ireland than England and given scarcity of recorders in Ireland the Wood White will be well under recorded. Given that, there are some areas in Ireland without records but it has a very good general distribution in the two Irish countries.

I also have found Newtonabbey on an atlas and compared it with the butterfly Millennium Atlas and there are 6 10km squares where the butterfly has been recorded around or in the Newtonabbey/Belfast area.

Futher 'googling' shows that Real's Wood White is found in Eire and Northern Ireland, so I would be 99.9% happy that yours is a Real's but the only way to truly tell is disect its genitals

Cheers

Aeshna

Many thanks Aeshna for the original ID and the subsequent detailed information about the Real's wood white in Ireland.