Enispe euthymius

Taxobox
name = Red Caliph


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regnum = Animalia
phylum = Arthropoda
classis = Insecta
ordo = Lepidoptera
superfamilia = Papilionoidea
familia = Nymphalidae
subfamilia = Morphinae
genus = "Enispe"
species = "E. euthymius"
binomial = "Enispe euthymius"
binomial_authority = (Doubleday, 1845)The Red Caliph "Enispe euthymius" is a species of nymphalid butterfly found in Southeast Asia.

Description

:"See glossary for terms used"Upperside of both males and females rich ochraceous orange. Fore wing has a spot along the upper portion of the discocellulars, two fine lunate spots beyond, an erect series of four discal spots, a subterminal zigzag narrow band, the apical portion of the costa, the apex and the terminal margin broadly black. Hind wing: a discal irregular transversely elongate suffused mark and two series of lunular continuous marks beyond black; termen narrowly fuscous. Underside rich bright ochraceous; a broad transverse band across both wings from costa of fore wing to the tornus of the hind wing slightly darker ochraceous, defined inwardly by an irregular sinuous and broken, and outwardly by a straighter complete ferruginous line ; some ferruginous spots at the bases of the wings, and on the hind wing a discal series of three or four minute dark ocelli, the lowest white-centred; outer halves of both fore and hind wing uniform, the black markings of the upperside showing faintly through. Antennae, head, thorax and abdomen bright ochraceous. [Bingham, C. T. 1905. Fauna of British India. Butterflies. Vol. 1.]

Found in Sikkim, Assam and Myanmar.

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