Dodona eugenes

Description

Male: Upperside: closely resembles D. dipaea in the ground-colour and markings, but on the hind wing the markings are broader and more diffuse, and the lobe has a short filamentous black white-edged tail. Underside a brighter brown than in D. dipaea; the markings very similar, but twice as broad.

• Expanse: 38-49 mm
• Habitat: The Himalayas from Murree to Bhutan; Assam, the Khasi and Jaintia Hills.
• Larva: More or less onisciform, pale emerald-green with two dorsal blue lines somewhat sparingly covered with short hairs, it Feeds on grasses and hill-bamboo.
• Pupa: pale green, with cross check o£ darker green lines. Head bifid, flat in front and angulated below.

  Subspecies

• D. e. eugenes Sikkim to Assam to Burma, Tibet, Himalayas, Northeast India, North Thailand, Indo China, West China.
• D. e. chaseni Corbet, 1941 Peninsular Malaya
• D. e. venox Fruhstorfer, 1912 Sikkim, Assam, Yunnan
• D. e. esakii Shirôzu, 1953 Formosa
• D. e. formosana Matsumura, 1919 Taiwan

Biology