Kallima knyvetti

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regnum = Animalia
phylum = Arthropoda
classis = Insecta
ordo = Lepidoptera
familia = Nymphalidae
subfamilia = Nymphalinae
genus = "Kallima"
species = "K. knyvetti"
binomial = "Kallima knyvetti"
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Description

Male upperside forewing: basal area to near apex of cell and thence obliquely to the zigzag subterminal line as it crosses interspace 1 dark green,succeeded by a black line along the discocellulars, and a broad sinuous discal band (not curved as in "Kallima horsfieldi") bluish white below vein 3, pure white with bluish suffused inner margin above vein 3 to costa; measured on the costal margin, the outer edge of this band less than half the length of the wing from base, the rest of the wing to apex black, with a preapical white spot; a medial discal hyaline spot in interspace 2. Hind wing-dark ochraceous brown, the costal margin and apex broadly and the abdominal fold much paler brown, irrorated with scattered dusky scales; vein 1 and the abdominal fold with long soft brown, hairs. Fore and hind wings with a dark subterminal zigzag line commencing somewhat below vein 3 on the fore wing. Underside as in "Kallima inachus" protectively coloured. Antennae black; head and thorax anteriorly dark green, thorax posteriorly and abdomen olivaceous brown. [Bingham, C. T. 1905. Fauna of British India. Butterflies. Vol 1]

Expanse 108-112 mm.

Distribution

Sikkim; Bhutan: Assam, the Naga hills; Tenasserim;

References