Xanthotaenia

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Yellow-banded nymph
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Xanthotaenia busiris burra, Borneo, Malaysia
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Nymphalidae
Tribe: Amathusiini
Genus: Xanthotaenia
Westwood, 1858 [1]
Species:
X. busiris
Binomial name
Xanthotaenia busiris
(Westwood, 1858)
Synonyms
  • Clerome (Xanthotaenia) busirisWestwood, 1858
  • Xanthotaenia polychromaHagen, 1898
  • Xanthotaenia obscuraButler, 1883

Xanthotaenia is a monotypic butterfly genus in the family Nymphalidae. [2] Its single species is Xanthotaenia busiris, the yellow-banded nymph. They can be identified by a yellow strip along their forewings. [3]

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Behavior

The larvae feed on Calamus , while adults spend most of their lives at ground level usually near ginger, around Faunis canens butterflies. In Peninsular Malaysia, eggs were found and larvae were reared on ginger. It is semi-crepuscular in behavior.

Distribution

The Xanthotaenia are primarily found around Myanmar, Thailand, Malaysia, Sumatra and Borneo, in tropical rainforests at elevations between 100–300 m.

Subspecies

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References

  1. "Xanthotaenia Westwood, 1858" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
  2. "Xanthotaenia busiris". animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu. Retrieved 10 November 2012.
  3. "Xanthotaenia busiris". tolweb.org. Retrieved 10 November 2012.