Araschnia prorsoides
Araschnia prorsoides | |
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Araschnia prorsoides in Seitz (64f) | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Family: | Nymphalidae |
Genus: | Araschnia |
Binomial name | |
Araschnia prorsoides | |
Araschnia prorsoides is a butterfly found in the East Palearctic (North India, Himalayas, West China, Manipur - North Burma) that belongs to the browns family.
Description from Seitz
A. prorsoides Blanch. (64f) resembles fallax [Araschnia fallax Janson, 1877 is a summer form of Araschnia burejana) on the upperside,but is recognizable by the different position of the outer costal spots of the forewing, the markings in the distal area, and the 3 almost parallel stripes resp.bands of the hindwing. In ab. levanoides Blanch. (64d) all the markings are reddish brown and partly more prominent but narrower; corresponds nearly to strigosa. West China, ? Japan (Oiwake); also in North India:Naga Hills. In ab. flavida Oberth. the pale markings are very much extended; the forewing bears in and below the cell large yellowish patches, the posterior spot of the costal halfband is prolonged into a streak;the hindwing brownish and whitish from the base to the submarginal band, only the basal area bearing still some dark spots; the distal margin dark brown, the inner edge of this band arcuate and near the same a row of dark spots on the light-coloured portion of the wing. The underside is whitish for the greater part, both wings bearing some dark-edged brownish spots in the basal area and indistinct yellowish and blackish shadows and stripes in the middle and outer areas. From Siaolu.[2]
References
- ↑ Blanchard, 1871 Remarques sur la faune de la principauté thibétane du Moupin C. R. hebd. Seanc. Acad. Sci., 72 : 807-813
- ↑ Seitz, A. ed. Band 1: Abt. 1, Die Großschmetterlinge des palaearktischen Faunengebietes, Die palaearktischen Tagfalter, 1909, 379 Seiten, mit 89 kolorierten Tafeln (3470 Figuren)
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