Vanessa Dejeanii
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Vanessa dejeanii spp. mounseyi |
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Vanessa dejeanii is a butterfly ( butterfly ) of the genus Vanessa from the family of Nymphalidae (Nymphalidae) in Indonesia and the Philippines found. The specific epithet honors the French lieutenant general and entomologist Pierre François Marie Auguste Dejean .
features
Adults
The fore wing length of the males of Vanessa dejeanii is 23 to 26 millimeters, that of the females 23 to 27 millimeters. The wings have a light brown base color and are poured over with greenish gold. The outer area of the forewings is dark brown. In the apex are the white spots typical of the genus on a black background and from the costa to the outer end of the cell is the light bar. The orange or red band from the costa to the inner corner in other species is yellow or whitish and it is very fissured or it consists of separate spots.
The hind wing has a dirty yellow to dirty orange, relatively narrow, submarginal band with triangular, dark brown spots. A second row with small spots runs further inside on the light brown ground.
The underside of the wing is significantly lighter than the top and marbled in brown and gray. Between the apex of the fore wing and the white bar at the end of the cell is a blue bar and a thin blue line. The hind wing underside is very similar to that of V. indica , but the white in the middle of the costa is even more diffuse.
Nothing is known about the pre-imaginal stages.
Geographical distribution
Vanessa dejeanii occurs on the Indonesian islands of Java , Bali , Lombok and Sumbawa and the Philippine islands of Mindanao and Samar . Nothing is known about the way of life.
Systematics
Vanessa dejanii is closely related to the other Indonesian endemics V. samani , V. buana and V. dilecta , but it is clearly a species of its own. The genitals of these species are all very similar, as is that of the subspecies nubicola of the Indian admiral ( V. indica ).
Subspecies
- Vanessa dejanii spp. dejeanii occurs on Java, Bali, Lombok and Sumbawa. The dubious subspecies sambaluna ( Fruhstorfer ) is with spp. dejeanii synonymized and occurs on all of the aforementioned islands except Java. Fruhstorfer's description of the differences to the nominate form is in the range of the usual differences between different individuals of the nominate form.
- Vanessa dejeanii spp. mounseyi occurs on the Philippine islands of Mindanao and Samar. The basic color of the fore wing is dark brown, not light brown, at the base and in the anal angle , and it is not poured green-gold over it. The yellowish or whitish band over the front wing is completely interrupted in three individual white spots. On the hind wing the basic color is also dark brown and the submarginal band is dark red to orange. The undersides of the wings are also darker, especially the hind wings.
Synonyms
- Pyrameis dejeanii Doubleday , 1849
Individual evidence
- ^ A b William D. Field: Butterflies of the Genus Vanessa and of the Resurrected Genera Bassaris and Cynthia (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae) , Smithsonian Contributions To Zoology, number 84, 1971, pp. 25ff
- ↑ a b Richard I. Vane-Wright, Harold WD Hughes: Did A Member Of The Vanessa Indica Complex (Nymphalidae) Formerly Occur In North America? In: Lepidopterists 'Society (Ed.): Journal of the Lepidopterists' Society . tape 61 , no. 4 , December 14, 2007, ISSN 0024-0966 , p. 202 ( online ).
- ↑ Niklas Wahlberg, Daniel Rubinoff: Vagility across Vanessa (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae): mobility in butterfly species does not inhibit the formation and persistence of isolated sister taxa . In: Systematic Entomology . tape 36 , no. 2 . Wiley, April 2011, p. 367 , doi : 10.1111 / j.1365-3113.2010.00566.x .
