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    • Map of probable butterfly routes Australia and New Zealand.
    Rights: Google Earth Published 16 May 2010 Size: 350 KB Referencing Hub media

    Entomologists now believe that New Zealand butterflies either blew across the Tasman Sea or came here via New Caledonia. It was once thought their origins were from Gondwana.

    Acknowledgements:
    © 2010 Europa Technologies
    © 2010 MapData Services PTYLtd, PSMA
    © 2010 Google
    US Dept of State Geographer

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      New Zealand butterfly origins

      Butterflies make very poor fossils. They have no bones or other solid matter that can be preserved. Therefore, unlike other animals, we can’t use their fossils to trace the history of when they ...

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