Euthalia mahadeva
Appearance
Euthalia mahadeva | |
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Euthalia mahadeva in Seitz | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Family: | Nymphalidae |
Genus: | Euthalia |
Species: | E. mahadeva
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Binomial name | |
Euthalia mahadeva |
Euthalia mahadeva is a butterfly of the family Nymphalidae (Limenitidinae). It is found in the Indomalayan realm.[2]
Description
[edit]Males have a dark dusky brown upperside smeared with purple on the exterior margin of the fore-wing and hind-wing with a broad band to the exterior margin, whitish anteriorly, bluish posteriorly, with a central longitudinal row of small, dusky spots. The underside is light brown, with greyish exterior margins, discoidal marks and a submarginal row of indistinct blackish spots.
Subspecies
[edit]- E. m. mahadeva Java
- E. m. zichri (Butler, 1869) Borneo
- E. m. rhamases Staudinger, 1889 Philippines
- E. m. sakii de Nicéville, 1894 Sumatra
- E. m. binghami de Nicéville, 1895 Burma, Thailand
- E. m. sericea Fruhstorfer, 1896 Nias
- E. m. zichrina Fruhstorfer, 1904 Peninsular Malaya
References
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- ^ Moore, 1859 A Monograph of the Genus Adolias, a Genus of diurnal Lepidoptera belonging to the Family Nymphalidae Trans. ent. Soc. Lond. (2) 5 (2): 62-80, (3): 81-87 This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
- ^ "Euthalia" Hübner, [1819 at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms