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  1. United Kingdom
  2. Dodona durga
Dodona durga(Kollar & Redtenbacher, 1844)
IUCN
  1. Riodinidae
  2. Nemeobiinae
  3. Nemeobiini
  4. Nemeobiina
  5. Dodona
  6.  durga
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Male Upperside vandyke-brown, spotted and marked with ochra-ceous and black as follows: Fore wing has a transverse band crossing the middle of the cell, continued to vein 1; a similar band at apex of cell continued below as a round spot in interspace 2 and a transverse spot in interspace 1; a macular similar band beyond apex of cell; three upper discal spots in interspaces 3, 6 and 8, followed by a sinuous transverse inner subterminal series of small spots and an outer subterminal series of transversely linear spots. Hind wing: a small spot in interspace 7, two spots beyond apex of cell continued towards the tornus in a series of more obscure smaller spots, and an inner and an outer transversely linear series of spots, the inner and outer spots in interspaces 5 and 6 with an intervening prominent black spot, a similar black spot also in interspace 1 and another on the lobe of the tornus. Underside has the veins on the basal halves of wings pale ochraceous white ; ground-colour ochraceous brown, with pale ochraceous-white markings as follow :Fore wing: a streak along basal half of costal margin, a patch at base of cell centred with a small triangle of the ground-colour, a broad oblique band across middle of cell continued below towards the dorsum, similar bands at apex and just beyond,apex of cell, with a spot below them near base of interspace 2, a transverse discal series of spots in interspaces 1, 3, 6 and 8; a transverse uneven postdiscal series and a subterminal transverse linear row of spots, the last extending from interspaces 1 to 5 ; the lower spots of the postdiscal and subterminal series bright ochraceous, with some obscure blackish spots on the inner side of the former and at the tornus. Hind wing : a narrow streak along the dorsal margin, another across interspaces 1 a and 1, with a forked similar streak along vein 1; none of these reaching the tornus ; a patch at base of wing enclosing a large spot of the ground-colour ; an oblique band from costa crossing the middle of the cell, an interrupted similar band crossing the apex of the cell, very slender along the disco-cellulars; two upper discal short streaks in echelon; subterminal black spots in interspaces 1 a, 1, 4 and 5, the former two bordered internally with ochraceous, the latter two encircled with while; a transverse line of white between the lower two and upper two black spots, and another short terminal similar line between vein 1 and vein 0; cilia of both wings white alternated with brown. Antennae, head, thorax and abdomen brown : beneath, the palpi, thorax and abdomen whitish, the palpi tipped with black.
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30-42 mm

  • Local names
  • LanguageVernacular name
    EnglishCommon Punch
    中文无尾蚬蝶
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    Butterflies of IndiaKunte, K., S. Sondhi, and P. Roy

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