Great Eggfly Did you see this animal?
Scientific Name : Hypolimnas bolina
Family : Nymphalidae
Order : Lepidoptera
Class : Insecta
Phylum : Arthropoda
Habitat : Vegetation
Description : The Great Eggfly is mostly black with a margin with white spots. The upperside of the forewing has two white spots, while the hindwing has one, all encircle by blue or purple colour. This species has another form, in which the upperside is black with small white spots along forewing and hindwing margins and with some small blue spots on the frontpart of the forewings. The underside of both wings is black with white spots along the margins and a median white band.The color of wings on the upperside of the female is paler in comparison to male.The underside of the wings is brown, with the same markings.
Distribution in Bangladesh
Other Species from Group
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Euthalia lubentina
(Gaudy Baron) -
Lebadea martha
(Knight) -
Junonia lemonias
(Lemon Pansy) -
Euripus nyctelius
(Courtesan) -
Lethe vindhya
(Black forester) -
Hypolimnas misippus
(Danaid Eggfly) -
Mycalesis malsara
(White-line Bushbrown) -
Cethosia cyane
(Leopard Lacewing) -
Lethe sinorix
(Tailed Red Forester) -
Vagrans sinha
(Vagrant)
References:
description written by:Shahtaj Islam Sakaal,Department of Zoology,University of Dhaka;information source:IUCN Red List Bangladesh-2015, www.cambridgebutterfly.com;photo credit:Soh Kam Yung(www.inaturalist.org/people/Soh Kam Yung),photo copyright: iNaturalist. more information please contact with us.
description written by:Shahtaj Islam Sakaal,Department of Zoology,University of Dhaka;information source:IUCN Red List Bangladesh-2015, www.cambridgebutterfly.com;photo credit:Soh Kam Yung(www.inaturalist.org/people/Soh Kam Yung),photo copyright: iNaturalist. more information please contact with us.