''Euploea eunice'', commonly called blue-banded king crow, is a butterfly found in the
Indomalayan realm
The Indomalayan realm is one of the eight biogeographic realms. It extends across most of South and Southeast Asia and into the southern parts of East Asia.
Also called the Oriental realm by biogeographers, Indomalaya spreads all over the Indi ...
that belongs to the crows and tigers, that is, the
Danaid group of the
brush-footed butterflies family.
The larva feeds on ''
Ficus
''Ficus'' ( or ) is a genus of about 850 species of woody trees, shrubs, vines, epiphytes and hemiepiphytes in the family Moraceae. Collectively known as fig trees or figs, they are native throughout the tropics with a few species extending in ...
'', ''
Flacourtia rukam
''Flacourtia rukam'' is a species of flowering plant in the family Salicaceae. It is native to Island Southeast Asia and Melanesia, but has spread into Mainland Southeast Asia, India, and Polynesia
Polynesia () "many" and νῆσος () " ...
'', ''
Streblus asper''
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Subspecies
*''E. e. eunice'' Philippines, Guam, Japan, Malacca, Java, Sumatra, Formosa
*'' E. e. novarae ''
(Felder, 1862) Nicobars, Andamans
*'' E. e. vestigiata''
Butler, 1866 Java, Sumatra
*'' E. e. hobsoni ''
(Butler, 1877) Taiwan
*'' E. e. leucogonis''
(Butler, 1879) Thailand, Peninsular Malaya, Langkawi, Singapore
*'' E. e. meizon''
(Doherty, 1891) Sumba
*'' E. e. phane''
(Doherty, 1891) Enggano
*'' E. e. juno ''
(Stichel, 1899) Nias
*'' E. e. coelestis ''
(Fruhstorfer, 1902) Laos, North Vietnam, Haina, Southeast China
*'' E. e. syra ''
(Fruhstorfer, 1902) Borneo, Palawan
*'' E. e. tisais ''
(Fruhstorfer, 1902) Lombok
*'' E. e. kandaon''
Fruhstorfer, 1910 Sumbawa
*'' E. e. relucida''
Fruhstorfer, 1910 Bali
*'' E. e. timaius''
Fruhstorfer, 1910 Bawean
See also
*
Danainae
*
Nymphalidae
*
List of butterflies of India
The following is a list of the butterflies of India.
India has extremely diverse terrain, climate and vegetation, which comprises extremes of heat cold, desert and jungle, of low-lying plains and the highest mountains, of dryness and dampness, i ...
*
List of butterflies of India (Nymphalidae)
References
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Euploea
Butterflies of Asia
Butterflies of Indochina
Butterflies described in 1819
Taxa named by Jean-Baptiste Godart
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