Dodona (butterfly)
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| Female Dodona eugenes in Godawari, Nepal | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Riodinidae |
| Subfamily: | Nemeobiinae |
| Tribe: | Zemerini |
| Genus: | Dodona Hewitson, 1861 |
Dodona, the Punches, are a genus of butterflies found in Asia. The genus was erected by William Chapman Hewitson in 1861.
Description[edit]
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[edit]
- 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
References[edit]
- ^ Bingham, C. T. (1905). The Fauna of British India, Including Ceylon and Burma: Butterflies Volume I. London: Taylor and Francis, Ltd.
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