Chitoria sordida
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| Sordid Emperor | ||||||||||||||
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| Chitoria sordida (Moore, 1865) |
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Apatura sordida |
The Sordid Emperor (Chitoria sordida) is a species of Nymphalid butterfly found in tropical Asia.
[edit] Description
The males have the upperside of the fore wing darkening towards the apex, the apical two-thirds much darker brown, an oblique discal white fascia from interspace (5 to tornal angle formed of more or less rectangular spots; a small spot beyond in interspace 4 and two preapical spots white. Hind wing uniform, a lunular subterminal dark line inwardly bordered by a row of dark spots, and a terminal row of pale lunules. Underside pale brownish grey. Fore wing with the discal band and spots more or less as on the upperside; a black, blind, yellow-ringed ocellus, with a dark brown shade in the interspace below it; ocellus and brown shading bordered inwardly by white; a subterminal dark line, and some diffuse white marks on terinen below apex and at tornus. Hind wing with an incomplete discal white band and a series of white spots beyond, ending in a well-marked, broadly yellow-ringed, blue-centred, black ocellus in interspace 2 ; lastly, a subterminal dark line as in the fore wing. Antennae brown, paler below the club ; head, thorax and abdomen brown, paler beneath.[1]
The female is similar; the hind wing is more rounded and the oblique discal band on the fore wing is very much broader. The wing expanse is 68-S0 mm. Found in northeastern India and Southeast Asia.
[edit] References
- ^ Bingham, C. T. 1905. Fauna of British India. Butterflies. Vol. 1
