Euthalia kanda

Euthalia kanda
Euthalia kanda in Seitz as surgas Vollenhoven
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Nymphalidae
Genus:	Euthalia
Species:	E. kanda
Binomial name
Euthalia kanda (Moore, 1859) [1]
Synonyms
Adolias surjas Snellen van Vollenhoven, 1862

Euthalia kanda is a butterfly of the family Nymphalidae (Limenitidinae). It is found in the Indomalayan realm. ^[2] A plain species above unicolorous dark umber-brown of a peculiar golden-green bronze lustre. On the forewing the cellular spots as in apicalis , both wings traversed by slightly undulate black lines closely approaching each other on the hind¬wing. Beneath it resembles a very pale merta but with much more delicate markings. An essential characteristic to distinguish the sexes by are the black crescent-shaped rings at the end of the cell in the forewing, which are narrower and more compressed than in any other Euthalia. Antennae quite red beneath, above as far as the middle brillant pale fulvous, differing from those of all other species. ^[3]

Subspecies

• E. k. kanda Borneo
• E. k. eliciusde Nicéville, 1890 Burma, Thailand
• E. k. maranaCorbet, 1937 Peninsular Malaya, Langkawi Island
• E. k. atysFruhstorfer, 1906 Sumatra
• E. k. mitschkeiLathy, 1913 Nias

References

1. Moore, 1859 A Monograph of the Genus Adolias, a Genus of diurnal Lepidoptera belonging to the Family Nymphalidae Trans. ent. Soc. Lond. (2) 5 (2): 62-80, (3): 81-87
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 .