Libythea geoffroy Godart 1820

Libythea geoffroy, the purple beak, is a butterfly found in parts of India and Myanmar that belongs to the subfamily Libytheinae of the family Nymphalidae.

Description

Race alompra, Moore. Male upperside is pale brown. Forewing: the cell, basal two-thirds of interspaces 1a, 1, 2 and 3, and the extreme base of interspace 4 suffused with a beautiful pale violescent blue; a curved series of three subquadrate preapical white spots. Hindwing: cell suffused with violescent blue extending faintly into interspaces 4, 5 and 6; a faintly-marked dull orange band below the lower apex of cell. Underside pale brown. If ore wing: apex grey, irrorated with minute dark spots; cell with a broad dull orange streak from base, followed by a violescent transverse spot in apex of cell; a large discal dull violescent spot in interspace 2 spreading slightly into interspace 3,. the curved series of three preapical spots as on the upperside but faintly dull violescent. Hindwing greyish brown, irrorated with dark spots and transverse dark striae and shaded with darker brown; the medial dull orange band replaced by a similar pale well-marked baud. Antennae, head and abdomen pale brown; thorax darker brown with a little greenish pubescence posteriorly; beneath, the palpi, thorax and abdomen pale greyish brown.

Female upperside: forewing with the violet area duller and confined to the immediate base of the wing; a quadrate white spot at the end of the discoidal cell; a tripartite subcostal spot; another elongated spot from the third median to the upper discoidal nervule, placed outwardly below it; a large quadrate discal spot, completely tilling the interspace between the first and third median nervules. Hindwing with no violet gloss at the base, otherwise as in the male. Underside: forewing with the cell orange but outwardly terminated by a large white spot; the other spots as on the upperside Hindwing as in the male, but all the markings mores obscure. (After Lionel de Nicéville)^[3]

Subspecies

• L. g. geoffroy (Java, Bali, Lombok, Sumbawa, Timor, Wetar)
• L. g. antipoda Boisduval, 1859 (New Caledonia, Loyalty Islands)
• L. g. batchiana Wallace, 1869 (Obi, Bachan, Halmahera)
• L. g. ceramensis Wallace, 1869 (Ambon, Serang)
• L. g. pulchra Butler, 1882 (New Britain, Duke of York, New Ireland)
• L. g. orientalis Godman & Salvin, 1888 (Guadalcanal)
• L. g. philippina Staudinger, 1889 (Palawan)
• L. g. celebensis Staudinger, 1889 (Sulawesi, Banggai)
• L. g. nicevillei Olliff, 1891 (Cape York to Cairns)
• L. g. sumbensis Pagenstecher, 1896 (Sumba)
• L. g. neopommerana Pagenstecher, 1896
• L. g. alompra Moore, 1901 (Burma, Borneo)
• L. g. deminuta Fruhstorfer, 1909 (Dammer, Babber, Wetter)
• L. g. maenia Fruhstorfer, 1909 (Waigeu, West Irina - Papua, Yule)
• L. g. eugenia Fruhstorfer, 1909 (Kai Island)
• L. g. genia Waterhouse, 1938 (north-western Australia)
• L. g. howarthi Petersen, 1968 (Rennell Island)
• L. g. eborinus Samson, 1980 (Solomons: San Cristobal)

Notes

References

• Evans, W.H. (1932). The Identification of Indian Butterflies (2nd ed.). Mumbai, India: Bombay Natural History Society.
• Gaonkar, Harish (1996). Butterflies of the Western Ghats, India (including Sri Lanka) - A Biodiversity Assessment of a Threatened Mountain System. Bangalore, India: Centre for Ecological Sciences.
• Gay, Thomas; Kehimkar, Isaac David; Punetha, Jagdish Chandra (1992). Common Butterflies of India. Nature Guides. Bombay, India: World Wide Fund for Nature-India by Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0195631647.
• Haribal, Meena (1992). The Butterflies of Sikkim Himalaya and Their Natural History. Gangtok, Sikkim, India: Sikkim Nature Conservation Foundation.
• Kunte, Krushnamegh (2000). Butterflies of Peninsular India. India, A Lifescape. Hyderabad, India: Universities Press. ISBN 978-8173713545.
• Wynter-Blyth, Mark Alexander (1957). Butterflies of the Indian Region. Bombay, India: Bombay Natural History Society. ISBN 978-8170192329.

Libythea geoffroy ou Échancré de Godart est une espèce d'insectes lépidoptères (papillons) qui appartient à la famille des Nymphalidae, à la sous-famille des Libytheinae et au genre Libythea.

Dénomination

Libythea geoffroy a été nommé par Godart en 1824^[1].

Noms vernaculaires

Libythea geoffroy se nomme en anglais Purple Beak et Libythea geoffroy genia Australian Beak^[1].

Sous-espèces

Libythea geoffroy genia femelle

• Libythea geoffroy geoffroy
• Libythea geoffroy alompra Moore, [1901]
• Libythea geoffroy antipoda (Boisduval 1859) ; en Nouvelle-Calédonie
• Libythea geoffroy batchiana Wallace
• Libythea geoffroy celebensis Staudinger
• Libythea geoffroy ceramensis Wallace
• Libythea geoffroy eugenia Fruhstorfer, 1909
• Libythea geoffroy genia Waterhouse, 1938 dans le nord-ouest de l'Australie.
• Libythea geoffroy howarthi Peterson
• Libythea geoffroy maenia Fruhstorfer, 1909
• Libythea geoffroy nicevillei Olliff, 1891 ; en Australie dans le Queensland.
• Libythea geoffroy orientalis Godart
• Libythea geoffroy pulchra Butler
• Libythea geoffroy sumbensis Pagenstecher^[1].

Description

Ce papillon a une envergure moyenne de 5 à 5,5 cm^[2]. Il présente un dimorphisme sexuel le dessus des ailes antérieures du mâle est bleu violacé entourées d'une large bordure brun clair et le dessus des ailes postérieures brun clair avec une partie basale un peu suffusée de bleu violacé La femelle est brun clair avec une partie basale orange. Mâle et femelle présentent des taches blanches surtout au revers^[3].

C'est un insecte diurne.

Chenille

Les chenilles sont vertes marquées de jaune^[3].

Biologie

Plantes hôtes

Les plantes hôte de sa chenille sont des Celtis, Celtis paniculata et Celtis philippinensis^[1],[3].

Écologie et distribution

Libythea geoffroy est présent dans le sud de l'Asie Birmanie, Thaïlande, Philippines et en Océanie jusqu'en Australie^[1].

C'est Libythea geoffroy antipoda (Boisduval 1859) qui est présent en Nouvelle-Calédonie, à Grande-Terre e aux iles Loyauté^[4].

Protection

Pas de statut de protection particulier.

Notes et références

Annexes

Libythea geoffroy is een vlinder uit de familie van de Nymphalidae, onderfamilie Libytheinae.

Libythea geoffroy werd voor het eerst wetenschappelijk beschreven door Jean Baptiste Godart in 1824.

Libythea geoffroy là một loại bướm ngày sinh sống ở một khu vực của Ấn Độ và Myanma thuộc nhóm Libytheinae của Họ bướm giáp.

Ghi chú

Tham khảo

• Evans, W.H. (1932) The Identification of Indian Butterflies. (2nd Ed), Bombay Natural History Society, Mumbai, India
• Gaonkar, Harish (1996) Butterflies of the Western Ghats, India (including Sri Lanka) - A Biodiversity Assessment of a threatened mountain system. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society.
• Gay,Thomas; Kehimkar,Isaac & Punetha,J.C.(1992) Common Butterflies of India. WWF-India and Oxford University Press, Mumbai, India.
• Haribal, Meena (1994) Butterflies of Sikkim Himalaya and their Natural History.
• Kunte,Krushnamegh (2005) Butterflies of Peninsular India. Universities Press.
• Wynter-Blyth, M.A. (1957) Butterflies of the Indian Region, Bombay Natural History Society, Mumbai, India.

Xem thêm

• Libytheinae
• Nymphalidae
• List of butterflies of India
• List of butterflies of India (Nymphalidae)

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