- Euthalia nais
Taxobox
name = Baronet
image_width = 240px
regnum =Animal ia
phylum =Arthropod a
classis =Insect a
ordo =Lepidoptera
familia = Nymphalidae
subfamilia =Limenitidinae
genus = "Euthalia "
species = "E. nais"
binomial = "Euthalia nais"
binomial_authority = (Forster, 1771)Verify source|date=September 2007The Baronet "Euthalia nais" is a species of Nymphalid butterfly found in
South Asia .Description
. [Bingham, C. T. (1905) Fauna of British India. Butterflies. Volume 1.]
* Male+female Upperside tawny yellow, base of both fore and hind wing dusted with fuscous scales; cilia black, alternated with white. Forewing with the following black markings: a transverse line below apex of cell, an oval transverse 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. Hind wing: 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. Fore wing: 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 luuular black band bent downwards below vein 6. Hind wing: 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 black, bright ochraceous at apex; head, thorax and abdomen tawny red above, brown shaded with crimson-pink below.
*Expanse: "58-70 mm".
*Habitat: "The plains of India and the Lower Himalayas; Southern India; Ceylon."
*Larva: "Light green with a dorsal row of purple spots, the sides armed with a row of ten very long horizontally-projected fleshy spines numerously covered with fine green hairs of a non-irritating character." (Moore)
*Pupa: "Short, broad, dorsum keeled ; broadly triangular across the middle; head bifid; colour green, with dark gold spots and lines." (Moore)References
ee also
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List of butterflies of India (Nymphalidae)
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