Dakhan Common Baron

Euthalia aconthea meridionalis Fruhstorfer, 1913 

Baron
Dakhan Baron- Female - Akhil Asshok

Malayalam Name 

:

കനിതോഴൻ

Family 

:

Nyphalidae

Sub-family             

:

Limetidinae

Tribe                     

: 

Leptociaini

Order

:

Lepidoptera


DISTRIBUTION
               South and SouthEast Asia
STATUS:   
HABITAT
HABITS
The wing is not flapped very far below the horizontal.This butterfly has a stiff flap glide style of flying. It flies at low heights and maintains a territory.
IDENTIFICATION  FEATURES
Wing Span: 55–88 mm. 
The male is brown with slight traces of olive. The forewing has two transverse short black lines at the base, a black loop across the middle, and another beyond the apex of the cell, with their centres dark brown, followed by an angulated discal dark brown band bordered outwardly by a series of five white spots; two preapical white spots beyond and a broad, somewhat diffuse, subterminal black band broadening over the apex and angulated inwards in interspace 1. Hindwing shaded with dark brown at base, two crescent-shaped dark brown loop-like marks in cell; a discal series of dark brown, elongate, outwardly acute, inwardly diffuse, somewhat hastate (spear-shaped) spots, followed by a subterminal series of small spots of the same colour. 
 
SIMILAR SPECIES 
Choclate Pansy
LARVAL HOST PLANTS
Anacardium occidentale, Mangifera spp., Mangifera indica (Anacardiaceae), Bryonia spp. (Cucurbitaceae), Scurrula parasitica (Loranthaceae), Morus spp., Streblus asper, Trophis aspera (Moraceae), Rosa spp. (Rosaceae).

LIFE CYCLE

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Dakhan Baron
 Dakhan Baro-Bernad M Thampan
Dakhan Baron
 Dakhan Baro-Bernad M Thampan
Dakhan Baron
 Dakhan Baron-Bernad M Thampan
Dakhan Baron
 Dakhan Baron-Bernad M Thampan
Common Baron

Common Baron






Courtesy 
Write up:Wikipaedia
Images: TNHS

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