| Terinos clarissa | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Nymphalidae |
| Genus: | Terinos |
| Species: | T. clarissa |
| Binomial name | |
| Terinos clarissa Boisduval, 1836 | |
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Terinos clarissa is an Indomalayan is a butterfly of the family Nymphalidae (Heliconiinae). The larva feeds on Homalium , Rinorea . [1]
Male above is a most magnificent, blue-violet velvety lustre.clarissa resembles above malayana (108 c) but the distal margin of the hindwing, while not quite so broad, is of a yellowish red colour. The predominant colour of the female is black; the forewings are dark blue at the base, with a narrow median band of the same colour. The hindwings are towards the anal angle yellow, proximally with a slight reddish tinge; the yellowish anal border is confined by an oblique blue intermedian band, and the anal area contains in addition two indistinct crescents as well as two circular patches of violet. The underside is in the male redbrown, with white longitudinal bands having a slight violet tinge, and with a strongly undulate reddish-yellow submarginal fascia, which latter is met with in all the subspecies. The female is chiefly gray with whitish anal area and a pale yellow submarginal band. [2]
