Euthalia nara

Euthalia nara, the bronze duke, is a butterfly of the family Nymphalidae (Limenitidinae). It is found in the Indomalayan realm.[2]

Euthalia nara
Euthalia nara Arunachal Pradesh, India
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Arthropoda
Class:
Insecta
Order:
Lepidoptera
Family:
Nymphalidae
Genus:
Euthalia
Species:
E. nara
Binomial name
Euthalia nara
(Moore, 1859) [1]

Description

Adolias nara n. sp.—Female. Upperside dark glossy golden olive-green, with blackish marginal and sub-marginal lines : forewing with oblique transverse row of six white spots, from middle of costal margin to near posterior angle, also two small sub-apical white spots ; marks within discoidal cell black : hind-wing with two white spots on costal margin near the angle. Underside glossy verdigris -green, apically olive-green : fore-wing with markings as above, but more defined and whiter ; lower part of disc patched with blue-black : hind-wing with transverse row of six white spots from costal margin to near the posterior angle ; indistinct discoidal markings. Ciliae white. Expanse 3 and 5/12inches.In Museum Entomological Society of London.

Subspecies
  • E. n. nara India, Sikkim, Nepal, N.Assam; Burma, Yunnan
  • E. n. alutoya Fruhstorfer, 1913
  • E. n. nagaensis Tytler, 1940 Naga Hils
  • E. n. kalawrica Tytler, 1940 Shan States
  • E. n. shania Evans, 1924 Shan States, Thailand, Yunnan
  • E. n. hainanana Gu, 1994 Hainan
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References
  1. Moore,F., 1859 A Monograph of the Genus Adolias, a Genus of diurnal Lepidoptera belonging to the Family Nymphalidae Trans. ent. Soc. Lond. (2) 5 (2): 62-80, (3): 81-87 This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
  2. " "Euthalia" Hübner, [1819 at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms


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