Euploea usipetes
Appearance
Euploea usipetes | |
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From Hewitson's Illustrations of New Species of Exotic Butterflies | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Family: | Nymphalidae |
Genus: | Euploea |
Species: | E. usipetes
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Binomial name | |
Euploea usipetes | |
Synonyms | |
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Euploea usipetes is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It was described by William Chapman Hewitson in 1858. It is endemic to New Guinea and neighbouring Cape York Peninsula in the Australasian realm.[2]
Subspecies
[edit]- E. u. usipetes (New Guinea, Aru, Papua, Yule Island, Cape York, Thursday Island).
- E. u. rezia (Kirby, 1894) (West Irian, New Guinea - Papua, Yule Island, Samarai, Goodenough, Fergusson Island).
References
[edit]External links
[edit]Wikispecies has information related to Euploea usipetes.
- Euploea at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms