Terinos atlita

Terinos atlita
Terinos atlita teuthras in William Lucas Distant's Rhopalocera Malayana
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Nymphalidae
Genus:	Terinos
Species:	T. atlita
Binomial name
Terinos atlita (Fabricius, 1787) [1]
Synonyms
Papilio atlitaFabricius, 1787 Terinos atlita albonotataMoulton, 1915 Terinos teuthrasHewitson, 1862 Terinos violaWallace, 1869 Terinos militium lioneliFruhstorfer, 1906 Terinos lioneliFruhstorfer, 1906 Terinos falcataFruhstorfer, 1898 Terinos fulminansButler, 1869 Terinos phalarisWeymer, 1887

Terinos atlita is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It was described by Johann Christian Fabricius in 1787. It is found in the Indomalayan realm. ^[2]

It is beneath not so brightly red-brown as clarissa ; the submarginal band which traverses the wings, is reddish or yellow, less strongly undulate. The hindwings lack moreover the white streak which in clarissa is enclosed between the nervules distally to the cell; in the females the forewings show at the anal angle a whitish patch which in clarissa appears on the hindwings. In the shape of the wings all the forms of atlita resemble rather T. clarissa militum. It is not scarce in the wooded low-lands in north-eastern Sumatra; several specimens from the Bovenlanden above Padang in western Sumatra in Fruhstorfer coll.

Subspecies

• T. a. atlita (Sumatra)
• T. a. teuthrasHewitson, 1862 (Peninsular Malaysia, Langkawi)
• T. a. militumOberthür, 1877 (Thailand - Indochina)
• T. a. falcataFruhstorfer, 1898 (Siam)
• T. a. fulminansButler, 1869 (Borneo)
• T. a. guangxienisChou, 1994 (Guangxi)

References

1. Fabricius, 1787 Mantissa insectorum sistens species nuper detectas adiectis synonymis, observationibus, descriptionibus, emendationibus Mantissa Insectorum 2 : 1-382
2. Seitz, A., 1912-1927. Die Indo-Australien Tagfalter Grossschmetterlinge Erde 9

External links

• Terinos at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms