Hypolimnas octocula explained

Hypolimnas octocula, the eight-spot butterfly, is a species of eggfly or diadem endemic to several islands and island chains in Oceania, including New Caledonia, Vanuatu and the Mariana Islands.^[1]

It includes the following subspecies:

• H. o. octocula Butler, 1869
• H. o. pallas Grose-Smith
• H. o. elsina Butler
• H. o. formosa Herrich-Schäffer
• H. o. marianensis

Notes and References

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