Hypolimnas octocula, the eight-spot butterfly, is a species of eggfly or diadem endemic to several islands and island chains in Oceania, including New Caledonia, Vanuatu and the Mariana Islands.[1]
Eight-spot butterfly | |
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H. o. marianensis on Guam | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Family: | Nymphalidae |
Genus: | Hypolimnas |
Species: | H. octocula
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Binomial name | |
Hypolimnas octocula |
It includes the following subspecies:
- H. o. octocula Butler, 1869
- H. o. pallas Grose-Smith
- H. o. elsina Butler
- H. o. formosa Herrich-Schäffer
- H. o. marianensis
References
edit- ^ "Hypolimnas Hübner, [1819]" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms