Euthalia merta explained

Euthalia merta, the dark-male baron, is a butterfly of the family Nymphalidae (Limenitidinae). It is found in the Indomalayan realm.^[1] It is a large butterfly with forewings with an angular apex and concave outer edge and hindwings with an angular anal angle.The wings are beige to brown, marbled.

Subspecies

• E. m. merta Assam to Peninsular Malaya, Singapore
• E. m. apicalis (Vollenhoven, 1862) Borneo
• E. m. pseudomerta Fruhstorfer, 1906 Sumatra
• E. m. prisca Fruhstorfer, 1913 Bangka
• E. m. phantasma Fruhstorfer, 1913 Nias
• E. m. pseuderiphyle Fruhstorfer, 1913
• E. m. karina Kalis, 1933 Sabang
• E. m. milleri Pendlebury, 1939 Langkawi Is.
• E. m. tioma Eliot, 1978 Pulau Tioman
• E. m. schoenigi Schröder & Treadaway, 1978 Philippines (Negros)

Notes and References

1. http://ftp.funet.fi/pub/sci/bio/life/insecta/lepidoptera/ditrysia/papilionoidea/nymphalidae/limenitidinae/euthalia/ "Euthalia Hübner, [1819]"] at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms