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Probable butterfly routes

Map of probable butterfly routes Australia and New Zealand.

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.

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US Dept of State Geographer

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