Euploea usipetes

Euploea usipetes
	From Hewitson's Illustrations of New Species of Exotic Butterflies
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Nymphalidae
Genus:	Euploea
Species:	E. usipetes
Binomial name
	Euploea usipetes; Hewitson, 1858
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[edit]

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).

^ Hewitson, 1858 Illustrations of New Species of Exotic Butterflies Selected Chiefly from the Collections of W. Wilson Saunders and William C. Hewitson.
^ Seitz, A., 1912-1927. Die Indo-Australien Tagfalter Grossschmetterlinge Erde 9

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