Euploea usipetes

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Euploea usipetes
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From Hewitson's Illustrations of New Species of Exotic Butterflies
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Nymphalidae
Genus: Euploea
Species:
E. usipetes
Binomial name
Euploea usipetes
Hewitson, 1858 [1]
Synonyms
  • purusvan Eecke, 1915
  • Euploea hippiasMiskin, 1890
  • Hirpada reziaKirby, 1894
  • astriferaFruhstorfer, 1910
  • albodiscalisFruhstorfer, 1910

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]

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References

  1. Hewitson, 1858 Illustrations of New Species of Exotic Butterflies Selected Chiefly from the Collections of W. Wilson Saunders and William C. Hewitson.
  2. Seitz, A., 1912-1927. Die Indo-Australien Tagfalter Grossschmetterlinge Erde 9