Plain Tawny Rajah

Charaxes psaphon imna Butler, 1870  ചെമ്പഴകൻ

female

Malayalam Name 

:

ചെമ്പഴകൻ

Family 

:

Nyphalidae

Sub-family             

:

Charaxinae

Tribe                     

: 

Leptociaini

Order

:

Lepidoptera


DISTRIBUTION
               Pe
STATUS:   No
HABITAT
The
HABITS
Tts
IDENTIFICATION  FEATURES
Large size Black and orange butterfly with wingspan 85-110 mm.  
Male. Upperside dark fulvous-red. Forewing with the exterior half purpurescent-black, forming a broad marginal band, a discocellular duplex black mark, and some very indistinct slender blackish discoidal streaks. Hlndwing with a very broad apical and marginal band, which sinuously attenuates hindward, and terminates in two small white-marked anal spots; a short sinuous black streak from the costa contiguous to the band. Underside fulvous-brown, washed with purplish-grey. Both wings crossed by three basal, and two discal zigzag black lines with pale borders. Forewing also with a submarginal fascia composed of more or less defined small blackish dentate inner spots and outer diffused pearly-white dentate lunules. Hindwing also with a submarginal darker blackish-grey lunular fascia, and outer series of small black-tipt pearly-white dentate spots.
Male
Female

SIMILAR SPECIES  Con
LARVAL HOST PLANTS
Ziz

LIFE CYCLE


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Tawny Rajah

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Images: TNHS

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