Euploea

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Euploea
Long-branded blue crow (Euploea algea menetriesii) underside Phi Phi 2.jpg
Long-branded blue crow ( E. algea menetriesii ), Phi Phi, Thailand
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Nymphalidae
Subfamily: Danainae
Tribe: Danaini
Subtribe: Euploeina
Genus: Euploea
Fabricius, 1807 [1]
Type species
Papilio corus [2]
Fabricius, 1793
Synonyms [1]
  • AnadaraMoore, 1883
  • DorichaMoore, 1883

Euploea is a genus of milkweed butterflies. The species are generally dark in coloration, often quite blackish, for which reason they are commonly called crows. As usual for their subfamily, they are poisonous due to feeding on milkweeds and other toxic plants as caterpillars. The latter are aposematically colored to warn off predators from eating them, and the adult butterflies are often mimicked by unrelated species which are not or less poisonous.

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Species

Listed alphabetically. [3] [ as of? ]

Euploea phaenareta hollandi Euploea phaenareta hollandi MHNT.ZOO.2004.0.768.jpg
Euploea phaenareta hollandi

Nomenclature

This genus has a large number of junior synonyms, due in part to Moore [5] committing what probably ranks as one of the most drastic cases of oversplitting in the history of zoology:[ citation needed ]

Crastia Hübner, 1816
TrepsichroisHübner, 1816
SalpinxHübner, 1819
Eudaemon Billberg, 1820
TerpsichroisHübner, 1821 (lapsus)
Euplaea Boisduval, 1832 (lapsus)
Calliploea Butler, 1875
MacroploeaButler, 1878
StictoploeaButler, 1878
Euplea W.F. Kirby, 1879 (lapsus)
Adigama Moore, 1880
AndasenaMoore, 1883
BetangaMoore, 1883
BibisanaMoore, 1883
ChanapaMoore, 1883
ChirosaMoore, 1883
DanisepaMoore, 1883
DeragenaMoore, 1883
GamatobaMoore, 1883
GlinamaMoore, 1883
HirdapaMoore, 1883
IsamiaMoore, 1883
KaradiraMoore, 1883
LontaraMoore, 1883
MahinthaMoore, 1883
MenamaMoore, 1883
MestapraMoore, 1883
NacamsaMoore, 1883
NarmadaMoore, 1880
NiparaMoore, 1883
OranasmaMoore, 1883
PademmaMoore, 1883
PatosaMoore, 1883
PenoaMoore, 1883
PramasaMoore, 1883
PramestaMoore, 1883
RasumaMoore, 1883
SabanosaMoore, 1883
SapharaMoore, 1883
SarobiaMoore, 1883
SatangaMoore, 1883
SelindaMoore, 1883
TabadaMoore, 1883
TagataMoore, 1883
TirunaMoore, 1883
TrongaMoore, 1883
VadebraMoore, 1883
VononaMoore, 1883
AnadaraMoore, 1883 (non Gray, 1847: preoccupied)
DorichaMoore, 1883 (non Reichenbach, 1853: preoccupied)
KaradinaMoore, 1891 (lapsus)
ChirosiaSharp, 1904 (lapsus)
Daniseppa Fruhstorfer, 1910 (lapsus)
PamasaFruhstorfer, 1910 (lapsus)
RausumaFruhstorfer, 1910 (lapsus)
IrongaMartin, 1914 (lapsus)
MakroploeaMartin, 1915 (lapsus)
EupoleaHulstaert, 1931 (lapsus)
RamasaHulstaert, 1931 (lapsus)

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References

  1. 1 2 Euploea at Butterflies and Moths of the World, Natural History Museum
  2. ↑ Hemming, Francis (1945). "Opinion 163. Suspension of the Rules for Euploea Fabricius, 1807 (Class Insecta, Order Lepidoptera)". Opinions and Declarations Rendered by the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature. 2 (33): 338–343.
  3. ↑ "Euploea Fabricius, 1807" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
  4. ↑ Kirton, Laurence G. (2014). A Naturalist's Guide to the Butterflies of Peninsular Malayasia, Singapore and Thailand. Oxford:John Beaufoy Publ., p.55.
  5. ↑ Frederic Moore (1883). "A Monograph of Limnaina and Euploeina, two Groups of diurnal Lepidoptera belonging to the Subfamily Euploeinae; with Descriptions of new Genera and Species". Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London . 1883 (3): 253–324.
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