Euthalia nara

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Euthalia nara
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Euthalia nara Arunachal Pradesh, India
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Nymphalidae
Genus: Euthalia
Species:
E. nara
Binomial name
Euthalia nara
(Moore, 1859) [1]

Euthalia nara, the bronze duke, is a butterfly of the family Nymphalidae (Limenitidinae). It is found in the Indomalayan realm. [2]

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Description

Adolias nara n. sp.—Female. Upperside dark glossy golden olive-green, with blackish marginal and sub-marginal lines : forewing with oblique transverse row of six white spots, from middle of costal margin to near posterior angle, also two small sub-apical white spots ; marks within discoidal cell black : hind-wing with two white spots on costal margin near the angle. Underside glossy verdigris -green, apically olive-green : fore-wing with markings as above, but more defined and whiter ; lower part of disc patched with blue-black : hind-wing with transverse row of six white spots from costal margin to near the posterior angle ; indistinct discoidal markings. Ciliae white. Expanse 3 and 5/12inches.In Museum Entomological Society of London.

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References

  1. Moore,F., 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): 81-87PD-icon.svg 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