Striped punch

Taxobox
name = Striped Punch
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Arthropoda
classis = Insecta
ordo = Lepidoptera
superfamilia = Papilionoidea
familia = Riodinidae
genus = "Dodona"
species = "D. adonira"
binomial = "Dodona adonira"
binomial_authority = (Hewitson, 1865)

The Striped Punch ("Dodona adonira") is a small but striking butterfly found in India that belongs to the Punches and Judies, that is, the family Riodinidae.

Description

:"See glossary for terms used"From Bingham, C. T. (1905) Fauna of British India. Butterflies Vol. 1

Males and females have the upperside dark brownish black, forewing with the base suffused slightly with ochraceous ; subbasal, discal and post-discal transverse orange bands, the subbasal straight, the other two slightly curved, sinuous and somewhat macular, the subbasal and discal bands joined posteriorly in interspace 1 a: Female with or without three or four transversely-placed upper subterminal orange-yellow spots. Hind wing: a pale yellow fascia, parallel to the dorsal margin; oblique subbasal, discal, postdiscal and inner and outer subterminal orange-yellow fasciae, all, except the post-discal, converging from the costa and meeting above the tornal lobe; the postdiscal fascia broad at costal margin, narrowing to a point-and terminating on vein 3; bilobed, the lobes margined outwardly by a very slender continuous white line, beyond which the cilia are black; the rest of the cilia on both fore and hindwings ochraceous white in male, black in female. Underside ochraceous, suffused with a darker ochraceous on the tornal area of the hind wing. Fore and hind wings transversely crossed by the following jet-black narrow bands. Forewing with basal, subbasal, inner and outer discal, postdiscal, subterminal and terminal bands ; the inner discal band terminating on vein 1, the outer discal on vein 3; the postdiscal interrupted posteriorly on vein 2; the postdiscal and subterminal widened on the costa. Hind wing with a band along vein 1; basal and subbasal bands in continuation of those on the fore wing, the latter turning upwards above tornus and continued to the base of the wing parallel to the dorsal margin; a discal band from costa to vein 3, a very slender postdiscal band from costa to dorsum, and closely approximate sub terminal and terminal bands ; the postdiscal slender band or line twice interrupted across the tornal area; lobes black, narrowly edged with white on the outer side. Antennae dark brown annulated with white; head, thorax and abdomen dark brown; beneath, palpi, thorax and abdomen ochraceous white.
*Expanse : 43-47 mm
*Habitat: Nepal; Sikkim over 5000 ft.,; Assam, the Khasi and Naga Hills; Upper Myanmar.

References

* Evans, W.H. (1932) The Identification of Indian Butterflies. (2nd Ed), Bombay Natural History Society, Mumbai, India
* Wynter-Blyth, M.A. (1957) Butterflies of the Indian Region, Bombay Natural History Society, Mumbai, India.

ee also

*Riodinidae
*List of Butterflies of India
*List of Butterflies of India (Riodinidae)

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