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Common Crow

Nymphalidae: Euploea core

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Field Notes

Description:

The Common Crow (Euploea core) is a glossy black butterfly with brown underside with white marks along the outer margins of the wing. The wingspan is about 8–9 cm and the body also has prominent white spots.
Upperside dark brown, broadly paler along terminal margins; Fore and hind wing with subterminal and terminal series of white spots; on fore wing the former more or less oval, curved inwards opposite apex, the latter series often incomplete, not reaching apex, the spots smaller; often there is a small costal spot, and very rarely a spot in apex of cell and one or more discal spots; on the hind wing the inner series of spots are elongate, the outer conical. Underside similar, but ground-colour more uniform; cell, costal and discal spots on both fore and hind wing nearly always present.
Source: Wikipedia

Habitat:

spotted in my garden in Tamil Nadu, India.

Species ID Suggestions

Common Crow

Euploea core

Common Crow

Euploea core

Comments (2)

Yes, if you can call it winter in Tamil Nadu!
Sitting on a Frangapani branch. No leaves - is it winter?

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