Dodona (butterfly) explained

Dodona, the Punches, are a genus of butterflies found in Asia. The genus was erected by William Chapman Hewitson in 1861.

Description

Forewing broad, short, triangular; costa very slightly arched; apex subacute; termen slightly convex; tornus angulate; dorsum straight; cell comparatively broad, about half the length of the wing; veins 6 and 7 from upper apex of cell, therefore upper discocellular obsolete, middle and lower subequal, concave; vein 3 from a little before lower apex of cell, 4 from apex, 8 and 9 out of 7, 10 from upper apex of cell, 11 free, 12 very short, terminating opposite origin of 11. Hindwing: costa arched; apex broadly rounded; termen below apex straight to vein 4, then slightly bent inwards and slightly concave to tornus; tornus produced and lobed, in some forms with a slender tail in addition; dorsum slightly arched, nearly straight; cell about half the length of the wing; discocellulars oblique; vein 3 from just before lower apex of cell, 4 from apex; costa at base angular. Antenna over half the length of the forewing; club short, male reduced and clothed with soft hairs; tarsus one jointed; Female has the foreleg covered in scales and functional.^[1]

Species

• Dodona egeon (Westwood, [1851]) Uttarakhand to Assam, Myanmar – orange Punch
• Dodona elvira Staudinger, 1896 northern Borneo
• Dodona adonira Hewitson, 1866 Nepal, Sikkim, north-eastern India (hills), northern Myanmar – striped Punch
• Dodona dipoea Hewitson, 1866 Tibet, Himalayas (west as far as Murree), north-eastern India (hills), Myanmar, western China – lesser Punch
• Dodona dracon de Nicéville, 1897 northern Myanmar
• Dodona kaolinkon Yoshino, 1999 western Yunnan
• Dodona katerina Monastyrskii & Devyatkin, 2000
• Dodona eugenes Bates, [1868] Tibet, Himalayas (west as far as Murree), north-eastern India (hills), Myanmar, western China – tailed Punch
• Dodona maculosa Leech, 1890 western and central China
• Dodona robinsoni Rothschild, 1920 Sumatra (Mount Kerinci)
• Dodona durga (Kollar, [1844]) Tibet, Chitral - Nepal, western and central China – common Punch
• Dodona ouida Hewitson, 1866 western China, Himalayas (west as far as Mussoorie), north-eastern India (hills), Myanmar
• Dodona vanleeuwenii Roepke, 1921 Java
• Dodona chrysapha Fruhstorfer, 1910 western Java (Mount Gede)
• Dodona deodata Hewitson, 1876 Assam - Myanmar
• Dodona henrici Holland, 1887 Hainan – white Punch
• Dodona aponata Semper, 1889 Philippines, Java, north-eastern Sumatra, northern Borneo
• Dodona speciosa Monastyrskii & Devyatkin, 2000

Notes and References

1. Book: Charles Thomas Bingham

   . Bingham . C. T. . Charles Thomas Bingham . The Fauna of British India, Including Ceylon and Burma: Butterflies Volume I . . London . 1905.