Stichophthalma camadeva

Northern Jungle Queen
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Nymphalidae
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.

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.[1][2] It is also found in Thailand

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]

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]

Cited references

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Marrku Savela's Website on Lepidoptera Page on Sticophthalma genus.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 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

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