Euploea usipetes
From Hewitson's Illustrations of New Species of Exotic Butterflies
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Nymphalidae
Genus: Euploea
Species:
E. usipetes
Binomial name
Euploea usipetes
Synonyms
  • purus van Eecke, 1915
  • Euploea hippias Miskin, 1890
  • Hirpada rezia Kirby, 1894
  • astrifera Fruhstorfer, 1910
  • albodiscalis Fruhstorfer, 1910

Euploea usipetes is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It was described by William Chapman Hewitson in 1858. It is endemic to New Guinea and neighbouring Cape York Peninsula in the Australasian realm.[2]

Subspecies

  • E. u. usipetes (New Guinea, Aru, Papua, Yule Island, Cape York, Thursday Island).
  • E. u. rezia (Kirby, 1894) (West Irian, New Guinea - Papua, Yule Island, Samarai, Goodenough, Fergusson Island).

References

  1. ↑ Hewitson, 1858 Illustrations of New Species of Exotic Butterflies Selected Chiefly from the Collections of W. Wilson Saunders and William C. Hewitson.
  2. ↑ Seitz, A., 1912-1927. Die Indo-Australien Tagfalter Grossschmetterlinge Erde 9
Wikispecies has information related to Euploea usipetes.
  • Euploea at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms


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