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Palm king

Amathusia phidippus

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Field Notes

Description:

Male: upperside umber-brown. Fore wing with the costal margin narrowly fulvous near apex, crossing towards the termen, forming an obscure preapical band joining a subterminal lunular band of the same colour. Hind wing uniform, with a subterminal band as in the fore wing but not lunular, straight. Underside pale brown, with the following transverse pale lilac-white bands crossing both fore and hind wing: basal, subbasal, discal, postdiscal, broad subterminal and terminal; the subbasal and discal of equal width, meeting above the tornal angle in V-shape, the space between the two bands with, on the fore wing, two shorter similar bands crossing the cell, on the hind wing a single similar band from costa to median vein ; subterminal band on hind wing bent upwards above tornal area and continued halfway up the dorsal margin, the broadly-produced torn us with a dark brown spot; finally a large ochraceous ocellus in interspace 2, and a smaller similar one in interspace 6. Antennae reddish; head, thorax and abdomen umber-brown. Secondary sex-mark a glandular fold in membrane of wing shaded by tufts of long hair along vein 1 on upperside of hind wing, and preapically on the abdomen with tufts of stiff long hairs.[1]
Female: Upper and under sides as in the male but paler; on the upperside the fulvous along the costal margin widens into a preapical patch, and generally the bands on the underside show through and appear above as pale fulvous bands.[1]
Wingspan: 112–122 mm. Please see link below for more information:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amathusia_phidippus

Notes:

Found this in our garden.

Species ID Suggestions

Palm king

Amathusia phidippus

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Hi Coleen! Pls join us in our Butterflies in the Philippines mission and add your lovely collection. - http://www.projectnoah.org/missions/15553007. Thanks!! :)
Coleen una foto muy bonita
You are welcome Coleen!

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