Euploea crameri explained

Euploea crameri, the spotted black crow, is a butterfly found in Asia that belongs to the crows and tigers, that is, the Danaid group of the brush-footed butterflies family.

Description

Shape of the wings as in Euploea godarti, Lucas. Upperside very dark brown, almost black, scarcely at all paler towards the terminal margins; forewings and hindwings with subterminal and terminal series of white spots; on the forewing the spots in the subterminal series much larger than the spots in the terminal series and bent inwards opposite apex, a spot in the apex of the cell often obsolescent and a discal series of four or five spots, of which one or two may be very small or obsolescent; on the hindwing the spots in the subterminal and terminal series sub-equal. Underside chocolate-brown, the white spots as on the upperside but more distinct, and in the hindwing with the addition of a spot in the apex of the cell and five or six discal small spots beyond. Antennae, head, thorax and abdomen very dark brown, and, the antennae excepted, spotted with white beneath. Wingspan of 88–94 mm.[1]

Ecology

The spotted black crow is found in the Indomalayan realm. It is known to undertake seasonal migrations.[2]

Subspecies

Notes and References

  1. Book: Bingham . C. T. . Charles Thomas Bingham . The Fauna of British India, Including Ceylon and Burma

    Butterflies Volume I

    . . London . 1905. (under Euploea esperi Felder, 1862)
  2. Orr,A.G.,Observations on the biology of migrating Euploea butterflies in north west Borneo. The Raffles Bulletin of Zoology, 2, 1994