Euthalia duda

Blue duchess
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Nymphalidae
Genus:	Euthalia
Species:	E. duda
Binomial name
Euthalia duda (Staudinger, 1855) [1]

Euthalia duda, the blue duchess, is a species of nymphalid butterfly found in South Asia.

Description

one of the loveliest Euthaliidi. Femalr one third larger than the figured male, and correspondingly more broadly shaded with moss-green in the subanal area of the hindwing. Underneath both sexes are alike, pale green laved with faded blue at the base. White bands as above. ^[2]

Subspecies

• E. d. duda Sikkim Burma
• E. d. amplifasciaTytler, 1940 Northeast Burma
• E. d. sakota Fruhstorfer, 1913 Yunnan - ground-colour of both sides paler and more uniformly green, without any blue beneath. On the forewing the white band is composed of much smaller, more isolated spots, on the hindwing, however, it is broader, margined with paler blue distally.
• E. d. bellulaYokochi, 2005 Laos, Vietnam

References

1. Staudinger, O. 1886 in Staudinger & Schatz Exotische Tagfalter in sysmatischer Reihenfolge mit Berücksichtigung neuer Arten
2. 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 .