Euploea_usipetes

<i>Euploea usipetes</i>

Euploea usipetes

Species of butterfly

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]

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Subspecies

  • 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).

References

  1. [1]
    Hewitson, 1858 Illustrations of New Species of Exotic Butterflies Selected Chiefly from the Collections of W. Wilson Saunders and William C. Hewitson.
  2. [2]
    Seitz, A., 1912-1927. Die Indo-Australien Tagfalter Grossschmetterlinge Erde 9
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