Sahyadri Gaudy Baron

August 10, 2023

Euthalia lubentina lubentina (Cramer, [1777])

Male Photo: Anila Manalil

Malayalam Name	:	കനിവർണ്ണൻ
Family	:	Nyphalidae
Sub-family	:	Limetidinae
Tribe	:	Leptociaini
Order	:	Lepidoptera

DISTRIBUTION

The Species found in South Asia and South East Asia. Sub species found in India

STATUS:

HABITAT

HABITS

IDENTIFICATION FEATURES

Wing Span: 60–80 mm.

Male. Upperside dark greenish brown. Forewing: a bar across middle and a bar beyond the apex of the cell crimson bordered with black: a slightly oblique transverse discal series of small white spots from costa to interspace 1, followed by a preapical curved row of four similar spots and a transverse subterminal series of elongate black spots forming an obscure band. Hindwing: a crescent-shaped black loop near apex of the cell area; a curved postdiscal series of four or five crimson spots outwardly bordered with black, the subcostal spot the largest, followed by a subterminal series of velvety-black subquadrate spots, the anterior three and the tornal spot outwardly crimson. Underside dark purplish brown suffused slightly with ochraceous, the markings as on the upperside but larger and more clearly defined, and in addition: forewing: two small black spots at base; basal half of costal margin crimson; hindwing: four crimson spots bordered with black at base; costal and dorsal margins crimson; another spot in the postdiscal series; the velvety-black spotting of the upperside more or less obsolete. Antennae dark brown, club beneath crimson; head, thorax and abdomen dark greenish brown; beneath, the palpi and the forelegs crimson, the rest pale brown.

SIMILAR SPECIES

Common Baron, Red Spot Duke, Choclate Pansy

LARVAL HOST PLANTS