Cethosia penthesilea

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Orange lacewing
Orange Lacewing.jpg
Scientific classification edit
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Nymphalidae
Genus: Cethosia
Species:
C. penthesilea
Binomial name
Cethosia penthesilea
(Cramer, [1777])
Subspecies

See text

Synonyms

Eugramma paksha

Cethosia penthesilea, the orange lacewing, is a species of heliconiine butterfly found in Southeast Asia, as well as the Australia's Northern Territory.[1]

Larval food: Lacewing Vine (Adenia heterophylla).[2]

Subspecies[]

  • C. p. methypsea (Butler, 1879) – plain lacewing
  • C. p. paksha (Fruhstorfer, 1905) – orange lacewing

References[]

  1. ^ Orange Lacewing, Ozanimals
  2. ^ Orange Lacewing Archived 2012-08-11 at the Wayback Machine, Butterfly House


Retrieved from ""