Dodona eugenes, the Tailed Punch, is a small but striking butterfly found in the Indomalayan realm that belongs to the Punches and Judies, that is, the family Riodinidae.
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Riodinidae |
| Genus: | Dodona |
| Species: | D. eugenes
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| Dodona eugenes Bates, [1868]
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Description edit
From Charles Thomas Bingham (1905) The Fauna of British India, Including Ceylon and Burma, Butterflies, Vol. 1:
Male: Upperside: closely resembles D. dipaea in the ground-colour and markings, but on the hind wing the markings are broader and more diffuse, and the lobe has a short filamentous black white-edged tail. Underside a brighter brown than in D. dipaea; the markings very similar, but twice as broad.
- Expanse: 38-49 mm
- Habitat: The Himalayas from Murree to Bhutan; Assam, the Khasi and Jaintia Hills.
- Larva: More or less onisciform, pale emerald-green with two dorsal blue lines somewhat sparingly covered with short hairs, it Feeds on grasses and hill-bamboo.
- Pupa: pale green, with cross check o£ darker green lines. Head bifid, flat in front and angulated below.
Subspecies edit
- D. e. eugenes Sikkim to Assam to Burma, Tibet, Himalayas (west as far as Murree), Northeast India (hills), North Thailand, Indo China, West China.
- D. e. chaseni Corbet, 1941 Peninsular Malaya
- D. e. venox Fruhstorfer, 1912 Sikkim, Assam, Yunnan
- D. e. esakii Shirôzu, 1953 Formosa
- D. e. formosana Matsumura, 1919 Taiwan
See also edit
References edit
- Evans, W.H. (1932). The Identification of Indian Butterflies (2nd ed.). Mumbai, India: Bombay Natural History Society.
- Wynter-Blyth, Mark Alexander (1957). Butterflies of the Indian Region. Bombay, India: Bombay Natural History Society. ISBN 978-8170192329.
Biology edit
The larva feeds on Adundinaria
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