Cethosia myrina
Violet lacewing | |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Family: | Nymphalidae |
Genus: | Cethosia |
Species: | C. myrina
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Binomial name | |
Cethosia myrina C. & R. Felder, [1867]
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Cethosia myrina, the violet lacewing[1] or brown accented butterfly, is a butterfly of the family Nymphalidae. It is found on the Indonesian islands of Sulawesi and Butung.
The wingspan is about 75 mm.
Subspecies[]
- Cethosia myrina myrina (northern Sulawesi)
- Cethosia myrina ribbei Honrath, 1887 (Banggai)[2]
- Cethosia myrina sarnada Fruhstorfer, 1912 (southern Sulawesi)
- Cethosia myrina melancholia Fruhstorfer, 1912 (eastern Sulawesi)
- Cethosia myrina vanbemmeleni Jurriansz, 1920 (Butung Island)
References[]
- ^ Subspecies of the Violet Lacewing, Cethosia myrina (Nymphalidae: Heliconiinae), a protected butterfly from Sulawesi Archived 2014-10-06 at the Wayback Machine, The Journal of Research on Lepidoptera
- ^ "Cethosia Fabricius, 1807" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
Categories:
- Acraeini
- Butterflies of Indonesia
- Butterflies described in 1867
- Taxa named by Baron Cajetan von Felder
- Taxa named by Rudolf Felder
- Heliconiinae stubs