Stichophthalma camadeva

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Northern Jungle Queen
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Superfamily: Papilionoidea
Family: Nymphalidae
Subfamily: Morphinae
Genus: Stichophthalma
Species: S. camadeva
Binomial name
Stichophthalma camadeva
(Westwood, 1848)


The Northern Jungle Queen Stichophthalma camadeva (Westwood, 1848)[1] is a butterfly found in South Asia that belongs to the Morphinae sub family of the Brush-footed butterflies family.

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[edit] Distribution

The Northern Jungle Queen ranges from Sikkim, north Bengal, Assam, Manipur, and Nagaland in India. It is also found in the Arakan hills and northern part of Myanmar.[2][1]

[edit] Status

Evans reports the butterfly as Not Rare in Sikkim and Assam and as Very Rare in the Naga hills.[2] Haribal reports the butterfly as Rare in Sikkim.[3]

[edit] Description

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Upperside of males and female: forewing with basal third chocolate-brown, shading into pale bluish white on the rest of the wing; a broad, irregular, pure white discal bar bounded on each side by sinuous pale blue lines ; a series of two or three large postdiscal brownish spots, succeeded by a series of quadrate dark brown spots touching an outer series of broad lunules of the same colour ; finally a subterminal row of narrow whitish crescentic marks and a terminal dark brown line. Hind wing dark chocolate-brown, paler towards base; a broad postdiscal, bluish-white, curved band formed of paired, large, inwardly angular spots in the interspaces followed by a continuous series of broad brown lunules, a sub-terminal row of narrow crescentic white marks, and a terminal brown Hue. Underside ochraceous, irrorated with greenish scales on the basal area of the wings and on the discal bar of the hind wing ; fore and hind wings crossed by sub basal and discal, transverse, sinuous, dark brown lines, followed by a straw-coloured discal bar, a brownish diffuse band, very dark ochraceous series of partly ocelli and partly obscure spots, and a postdiscal outer, broad, diffuse dark brown band, ending posteriorly in a black spot at the tornus of the hind wing. Antennae, head, thorax and abdomen chocolate-brown.[4]

[edit] Cited references

  1. ^ a b Marrku Savela's Website on Lepidoptera Page on Sticophthalma genus.
  2. ^ a b Evans, W.H. (1932) The Identification of Indian Butterflies, pg 132-133.
  3. ^ Haribal, Meena (1994) Butterflies of Sikkim Himalaya and their Natural History. Pg 128.
  4. ^ Bingham, C. T. (1905) Fauna of British India. Butterflies. Vol. 1

[edit] References

  • Evans, W.H. (1932) The Identification of Indian Butterflies. (2nd Ed). Bombay Natural History Society, Mumbai, India.
  • Haribal, Meena (1992) Butterflies of Sikkim Himalaya and their Natural History. Sikkim Nature Conservation Foundation. Gangtok, Sikkim.
  • Marrku Savela's Website on Lepidoptera [1].
  • Wynter-Blyth, M.A. (1957) Butterflies of the Indian Region. Bombay Natural History Society, Mumbai, India.

[edit] See also

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