Dodona eugenes

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Tailed Punch
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Riodinidae
Genus: Dodona
Species:
D. eugenes
Binomial name
Dodona eugenes
Bates, [1868]

Dodona eugenes, the tailedPunch, is a small but striking species of butterfly found in the Indomalayan realm that belongs to the Punches and Judies, that is, the family Riodinidae.

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Description

From Charles Thomas Bingham (1905) The Fauna of British India, Including Ceylon and Burma, Butterflies, Vol. 1:

Male: Upperside: closely resembles D. dipaea in the ground-colour and markings, but on the hind wing the markings are broader and more diffuse, and the lobe has a short filamentous black white-edged tail. Underside a brighter brown than in D. dipaea; the markings very similar, but twice as broad.

Subspecies

  • D. e. eugenes Sikkim to Assam to Burma, Tibet, Himalayas (west as far as Murree), Northeast India (hills), North Thailand, Indo China, West China.
  • D. e. chaseni Corbet, 1941 Peninsular Malaya
  • D. e. venox Fruhstorfer, 1912 Sikkim, Assam, Yunnan
  • D. e. esakii Shirôzu, 1953 Formosa
  • D. e. formosana Matsumura, 1919 Taiwan

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Biology

The larva feeds on Adundinaria