Dodona eugenes

Dodona eugenes, the tailed Punch, is a small but striking species of butterfly found in the Indomalayan realm that belongs to the Punches and Judies, that is, the family Riodinidae.

Tailed Punch
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Riodinidae
Genus:	Dodona
Species:	D. eugenes
Binomial name
Dodona eugenes Bates, [1868]

Description

From Charles Thomas Bingham (1905) The Fauna of British India, Including Ceylon and Burma, Butterflies, Vol. 1:

For a key to the terms used, see Glossary of entomology terms.

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 (west as far as Murree), Northeast India (hills), 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

See also

• List of butterflies of India
• List of butterflies of India (Riodinidae)

References

• Evans, W.H. (1932). The Identification of Indian Butterflies (2nd ed.). Mumbai, India: Bombay Natural History Society.
• Wynter-Blyth, Mark Alexander (1957). Butterflies of the Indian Region. Bombay, India: Bombay Natural History Society. ISBN 978-8170192329.

Biology

The larva feeds on Adundinaria