Cethosia penthesilea
Appearance
Orange lacewing | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Family: | Nymphalidae |
Genus: | Cethosia |
Species: | C. penthesilea
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Binomial name | |
Cethosia penthesilea (Cramer, [1777])
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Subspecies | |
See text | |
Synonyms | |
Eugramma paksha |
Cethosia penthesilea, the orange lacewing, is a species of heliconiine butterfly found in Southeast Asia, as well as the Australia's Northern Territory.[1]
Larval food: Lacewing Vine (Adenia heterophylla).[2]
Subspecies
- C. p. methypsea (Butler, 1879) – plain lacewing
- C. p. paksha (Fruhstorfer, 1905) – orange lacewing
- C. p. penthesilea (Cramer, [1777])
References
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Cethosia penthesilea.
Wikispecies has information related to Cethosia.
- ^ Orange Lacewing, Ozanimals
- ^ Orange Lacewing Archived 2012-08-11 at the Wayback Machine, Butterfly House