Cirrochroa aoris

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Large yeoman
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Nymphalidae
Genus: Cirrochroa
Species:
C. aoris
Binomial name
Cirrochroa aoris
Doubleday, 1847

Cirrochroa aoris, the large yeoman, is a species of nymphalid butterfly found in forested areas of tropical South Asia and Southeast Asia. [1] [2]

Open wing position of Male of Cirrochroa aoris Doubleday, 1847 - Large Yeoman WLB DSC 0269.jpg

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References

  1. "Cirrochroa Doubleday, [1847]" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
  2. Corbet & Pendlebury, 1978 The Butterflies of the Malay Peninsula. Third Edition revised by J. N. Eliot Butterflies Malay Peninsula (3rd edn): 578pp, 55pls