Euthalia nara

Euthalia nara
	Euthalia nara Arunachal Pradesh, India
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Nymphalidae
Genus:	Euthalia
Species:	E. nara
Binomial name
	Euthalia nara; (Moore, 1859) [1]

Euthalia nara, the bronze duke, is a butterfly of the family Nymphalidae (Limenitidinae). It is found in the Indomalayan realm.[2]

Description

Adolias nara n. sp.—Female. Upperside dark glossy golden olive-green, with blackish marginal and sub-marginal lines : forewing with oblique transverse row of six white spots, from middle of costal margin to near posterior angle, also two small sub-apical white spots ; marks within discoidal cell black : hind-wing with two white spots on costal margin near the angle. Underside glossy verdigris -green, apically olive-green : fore-wing with markings as above, but more defined and whiter ; lower part of disc patched with blue-black : hind-wing with transverse row of six white spots from costal margin to near the posterior angle ; indistinct discoidal markings. Ciliae white. Expanse 3 and 5/12inches.In Museum Entomological Society of London.

Subspecies

E. n. nara India, Sikkim, Nepal, N.Assam; Burma, Yunnan
E. n. alutoya Fruhstorfer, 1913
E. n. nagaensis Tytler, 1940 Naga Hils
E. n. kalawrica Tytler, 1940 Shan States
E. n. shania Evans, 1924 Shan States, Thailand, Yunnan
E. n. hainanana Gu, 1994 Hainan

References

Moore,F., 1859 A Monograph of the Genus Adolias, a Genus of diurnal Lepidoptera belonging to the Family Nymphalidae Trans. ent. Soc. Lond. (2) 5 (2): 62-80, (3): 81-87 This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
" "Euthalia" Hübner, [1819 at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms

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[1] Moore,F., 1859 A Monograph of the Genus Adolias, a Genus of diurnal Lepidoptera belonging to the Family Nymphalidae Trans. ent. Soc. Lond. (2) 5 (2): 62-80, (3): 81-87 This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.

[2] " "Euthalia" Hübner, [1819 at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms