Enispe euthymius
| Red Caliph | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Nymphalidae |
| Genus: | Enispe |
| Species: | E. euthymius |
| Binomial name | |
| Enispe euthymius (Doubleday, 1845) | |
The Red Caliph Enispe euthymius is a species of nymphalid butterfly found in Southeast Asia.
Description
Upperside of both males and females rich ochraceous orange. Forewing has a spot along the upper portion of the discocellulars, two fine lunate spots beyond, an erect series of four discal spots, a subterminal zigzag narrow band, the apical portion of the costa, the apex and the terminal margin broadly black. Hindwing: a discal irregular transversely elongate suffused mark and two series of lunular continuous marks beyond black; termen narrowly fuscous. Underside rich bright ochraceous; a broad transverse band across both wings from costa of forewing to the tornus of the hindwing slightly darker ochraceous, defined inwardly by an irregular sinuous and broken, and outwardly by a straighter complete ferruginous line; some ferruginous spots at the bases of the wings, and on the hindwing a discal series of three or four minute dark ocelli, the lowest white-centred; outer halves of both forewing and hindwing uniform, the black markings of the upperside showing faintly through. Antennae, head, thorax and abdomen bright ochraceous.[1]
Found in Sikkim, Assam and Myanmar.
References
- ↑ Bingham, C.T. (1905). The Fauna of British India, Including Ceylon and Burma Butterflies. 1 (1st ed.). London: Taylor and Francis, Ltd.