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| Euthalia amanda | |
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| Female from Sungai Pontolo, North Gorontalo, Sulawesi | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Clade: | Pancrustacea |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Nymphalidae |
| Genus: | Euthalia |
| Species: | E. amanda |
| Binomial name | |
| Euthalia amanda (Hewitson, 1862) | |
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Euthalia amanda, the Sulawesi gaudy baron, is a butterfly endemic to Sulawesi, Indonesia. It was first described by William Chapman Hewitson in 1862.
Description
[edit]Male very plainly marked, above black with dark green marginal area of the forewing and greenish steel-blue border of the hindwing; the latter in addition with a black postdiscal band, a median zigzag line and conspicuous sub marginal, intranerval scallops. Female has the forewing marked as in lubentina; the hindwing with a red median band varying in width according to the locality, and with black anteterminal dots edged with red distally. Under surface of male grey-black, forewing with two red cellular streaks; female grey suffused with bluish; hindwing with two rows of red spots, as in male.[1]
Subspecies
[edit]- E. a. amanda (Sulawesi, Buton)
- E. a. selayarensis Tsukada, 1991 (Selayar)
- E. a. periya Fruhstorfer, 1913 (Banggai) darker ground-colour, the larger white spots on the forewing and broad, more intensely red bands on the hind wings; these characteristics are in both sexes even more evident on the under surface.
- E. a. irauana Jumalon, 1975 (Palawan)
References
[edit]- ↑ Seitz, A., 1912-1927. Die Indo-Australien Tagfalter. Theclinae, Poritiinae, Hesperiidae. Grossschmetterlinge Erde 9: 799-1107, pls. 138-175.
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