A study has revealed the Australian fritillary butterfly is at the top of the list of butterflies at the greatest risk of extinction after no confirmed sightings since two thousand and one.
The butterfly is said to be eye catching and quite large. Doctor Trevor Lambkin from the University of Queensland’s School of Biological Sciences says concerns the species is already gone are increasing.
Doctor Lambkin is one of the authors of Butterflies on the Brink, a new study published in Austral Entomology and says he likes to be optimistic but twenty years without a confirmed sighting is not positive.