Euthalia nais

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Baronet
Baronet-Bangalore.jpg
upper side
Baronet Euthalia nais (7921548952).jpg
underside
Scientific classification edit
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Nymphalidae
Genus: Euthalia
Species:
E. nais
Binomial name
Euthalia nais
(Forster, 1771)[1]
Synonyms

Symphaedra nais Forster, 1771

Euthalia nais, the baronet,[2] is a species of Nymphalid butterfly found in South Asia.[1][2]

Description[]

In Narsapur, Medak district, India

The male and the female both have tawny-yellow uppersides. The forewing has a traverse black line below apex cell and an oval spot beyond encircling a small yellow spot, a broad short oblique discal bar and an angulated postdiscal lunular band the costa narrowly and the termen shaded with black. Hindwing: a comparatively large triangular patch below the middle of the costa, a postdiscal evenly curved series of spots and a broad band along the termen black. Underside dark ochraceous red. Forewing: the base shaded with fuscous black, two spots at base of cell and a transverse line beyond crimson pink, edged with black: a very broad oblique discal band, angulated downwards below vein 4, bordered posteriorly by a large black spot on the inner side and outwardly and anteriorly by an oblique broad black band, followed by four anterior obliquely placed ochraceous-white spots, and beyond by a very narrow lunular black band bent downwards below vein 6. Hindwing: a crimson short line at extreme base, two crimson black-bordered spots in cell: a comparatively broad transverse discal white band often broken up into a large spot below middle of costa, with two or three spots in line below it; finally, a postdiscal series of small black spots. Antennae are black, bright ochraceous at apex; head, thorax and abdomen tawny red above, brown shaded with crimson-pink below.[3][4]

Under side; Bhenskatri, Dang, Gujarat, India
Upperside; Bhenskatri, Dang, Gujarat

Distribution[]

It is widely found in India and Sri Lanka. In India its distribution ranges from lower Himalayas to southern India[3]

Life cycle[]

Larva[]

The larva is light green with the purple spots on the dorsal. The sides of the larva contain row of ten horizontal spines covered with fine green hair.[3]

Pupa[]

The pupa is short broad and triangular. It is green and has gold spots and lines.[3]

Larval host plants[]

The larval host plants are Shorea robusta and Diospyros melanoxylon [5]

  • Mating pair

  • Egg

  • Caterpillar

See also[]

References[]

  1. ^ a b "Euthalia Hübner, [1819]" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
  2. ^ a b R.K., Varshney; Smetacek, Peter (2015). A Synoptic Catalogue of the Butterflies of India. New Delhi: Butterfly Research Centre, Bhimtal & Indinov Publishing, New Delhi. p. 205. doi:10.13140/RG.2.1.3966.2164. ISBN 978-81-929826-4-9.
  3. ^ a b c d Public Domain One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain: Bingham, Charles Thomas (1905). Fauna of British India. Butterflies Vol. 1. p. 287.
  4. ^ Public Domain One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain: Moore, Frederic (1896–1899). Lepidoptera Indica. Vol. III. London: Lovell Reeve and Co. pp. 56–59.
  5. ^ kehimkar, isaac (2008). The book of indian butterflies. BNHS. p. 384.
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