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Scientific Name : Polyura delphis
Family : Nymphalidae
Order : Lepidoptera
Class : Insecta
Phylum : Arthropoda
Habitat : Hill,forests,plain land
Description : Overall white or cream-like colour. Upperside of the forewings with a black apex. Upperside of the hindwings completely white. Underside white with brown-cream venation. Both forewings and hindwings have a characteristic series of crescent blue spots on the edge, followed by circular yellow-orange spots that become reddish posteriorly on the hindwing.
Distribution in Bangladesh
Other Species from Group
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Cyrestis thyodamas
(Common Map) -
Mycalesis perseus
(Common Bushbrown) -
Elymnias hypermnestra
(Common Palmfly) -
Junonia almana
(Peacock Pansy) -
Dophla evelina
(Redspot Duke) -
Pantoporia hordonia
(Common Lascar) -
Athyma inara
(Color Sergeant) -
Mycalesis malsara
(White-line Bushbrown) -
Lethe sinorix
(Tailed Red Forester) -
Hypolimnas misippus
(Danaid Eggfly)
References:
description written by:Shahtaj Islam Sakaal,Department of Zoology,University of Dhaka;information source:IUCN Red List Bangladesh-2015, ifoundbutterflies.org;photo credit & copyright: Syed Abbasmore information please contact with us.
description written by:Shahtaj Islam Sakaal,Department of Zoology,University of Dhaka;information source:IUCN Red List Bangladesh-2015, ifoundbutterflies.org;photo credit & copyright: Syed Abbasmore information please contact with us.