Euthalia amanda

Euthalia amanda
Female from Sungai Pontolo, North Gorontalo, Sulawesi
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Nymphalidae
Genus:	Euthalia
Species:	E. amanda
Binomial name
Euthalia amanda (Hewitson, 1862)
Synonyms
Adolias amandaHewitson, 1861 Euthalia amanda rubicundusTsukada, 1991

Euthalia amanda, the Sulawesi gaudy baron, is a butterfly endemic to Sulawesi, Indonesia. It was first described by William Chapman Hewitson in 1862.

Description

Male very plainly marked, above black with dark green marginal area of the forewing and greenish steel-blue border of the hindwing; the latter in addition with a black postdiscal band, a median zigzag line and conspicuous sub marginal, intranerval scallops. Female has the forewing marked as in lubentina ; the hindwing with a red median band varying in width according to the locality, and with black anteterminal dots edged with red distally. Under surface of male grey-black, forewing with two red cellular streaks; female grey suffused with bluish; hindwing with two rows of red spots, as in male. ^[1]

Subspecies

• E. a. amanda (Sulawesi, Buton)
• E. a. selayarensisTsukada, 1991 (Selayar)
• E. a. periyaFruhstorfer, 1913 (Banggai) darker ground-colour, the larger white spots on the forewing and broad, more intensely red bands on the hind wings; these characteristics are in both sexes even more evident on the under surface.
• E. a. irauanaJumalon, 1975 (Palawan)

External links

• Butterflies of Southeastern Sulawesi

1. Seitz, A., 1912-1927. Die Indo-Australien Tagfalter. Theclinae, Poritiinae, Hesperiidae. Grossschmetterlinge Erde 9: 799-1107, pls. 138-175. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain .