Euthalia confucius

Euthalia confucius
Euthalia confucius in Rhopalocera Exotica
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Nymphalidae
Genus:	Euthalia
Species:	E. confucius
Binomial name
Euthalia confucius (Westwood, 1850) [1]

Euthalia confucius is a butterfly of the family Nymphalidae (Limenitidinae). It is found in Burma, Tibet, China and Vietnam (subspecies gibbsi Monastyrskii & Devyatkin, 2003). Subspecies E. c. sadona Tytler, 1940 is described from Yunnan. ^[2] It is a lovely species, differing from Euthalia patala in having on the forewing 3 instead of 2 whitish subapical spots, and in the more variegated under surface of the hindwings. ^[3]

References

1. Doubleday and Westwood, 1848-1850 The genera of diurnal Lepidoptera, comprising their generic characters, a notice of their habitats and transformations, and a catalogue of the species of each genus; illustrated with 86 plates by W. C. Hewitson This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
2. "Euthalia" Hübner, [1819 at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
3. 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 .