- Stichophthalma camadeva
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Northern Jungle Queen Scientific classification Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Arthropoda Class: Insecta Order: Lepidoptera Family: Nymphalidae Genus: Stichophthalma Species: S. camadeva Binomial name Stichophthalma camadeva
(Westwood, 1848)The Northern Jungle Queen Stichophthalma camadeva (Westwood, 1848)[1] is a butterfly found in South Asia that belongs to the Morphinae sub family of the Brush-footed butterflies family.
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Distribution
The Northern Jungle Queen ranges from Sikkim, north Bengal, Assam, Manipur, and Nagaland in India. It is also found in the Arakan hills and northern part of Myanmar.[1][2]
Status
Evans reports the butterfly as Not Rare in Sikkim and Assam and as Very Rare in the Naga hills.[2] Haribal reports the butterfly as Rare in Sikkim.[3]
Description
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Upperside of males and female: forewing with basal third chocolate-brown, shading into pale bluish white on the rest of the wing; a broad, irregular, pure white discal bar bounded on each side by sinuous pale blue lines ; a series of two or three large postdiscal brownish spots, succeeded by a series of quadrate dark brown spots touching an outer series of broad lunules of the same colour ; finally a subterminal row of narrow whitish crescentic marks and a terminal dark brown line. Hind wing dark chocolate-brown, paler towards base; a broad postdiscal, bluish-white, curved band formed of paired, large, inwardly angular spots in the interspaces followed by a continuous series of broad brown lunules, a sub-terminal row of narrow crescentic white marks, and a terminal brown Hue. Underside ochraceous, irrorated with greenish scales on the basal area of the wings and on the discal bar of the hind wing ; fore and hind wings crossed by sub basal and discal, transverse, sinuous, dark brown lines, followed by a straw-coloured discal bar, a brownish diffuse band, very dark ochraceous series of partly ocelli and partly obscure spots, and a postdiscal outer, broad, diffuse dark brown band, ending posteriorly in a black spot at the tornus of the hind wing. Antennae, head, thorax and abdomen chocolate-brown.[4]
Cited references
- ^ a b Marrku Savela's Website on Lepidoptera Page on Sticophthalma genus.
- ^ a b Evans, W.H. (1932) The Identification of Indian Butterflies, pg 132-133.
- ^ Haribal, Meena (1994) Butterflies of Sikkim Himalaya and their Natural History. Pg 128.
- ^ Bingham, C. T. (1905) Fauna of British India. Butterflies. Vol. 1
References
- Evans, W.H. (1932) The Identification of Indian Butterflies. (2nd Ed). Bombay Natural History Society, Mumbai, India.
- Haribal, Meena (1992) Butterflies of Sikkim Himalaya and their Natural History. Sikkim Nature Conservation Foundation. Gangtok, Sikkim.
- Marrku Savela's Website on Lepidoptera [1].
- Wynter-Blyth, M.A. (1957) Butterflies of the Indian Region. Bombay Natural History Society, Mumbai, India.
See also
- Morphinae
- Nymphalidae
- List of butterflies of India
- List of butterflies of India (Morphinae)
- List of butterflies of India (Nymphalidae)
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