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''Bassarona teuta'', the banded marquis,"''Bassarona'' Moore, [1897]"
at Markku Savela's ''Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms'' is a species of Nymphalidae">nymphalid The Nymphalidae are the largest family of butterflies, with more than 6,000 species distributed throughout most of the world. Belonging to the superfamily Papilionoidea, they are usually medium-sized to large butterflies. Most species have a red ...
butterfly. This species is placed by some authors in the genus ''Euthalia'', as ''Bassarona'' may be considered only a subgenus.


Subspecies

*''B. t. teuta'' (Assam to Thailand) *''B. t. goodrichi'' (Distant, 1886) (southern Thailand, Peninsular Malaya, Pulau Tioman) *''B. t. affinis'' Lathy, 1900 (Siam) *''B. t. rayana'' (Morishita, 1968) (Langkawi) *''B. t. tiomanica'' Eliot, 1978 (Pulau Tioman) *''B. t. teutoides'' (Moore, 1877) (Andamans) *''B. t. gupta'' (de Nicéville, 1886) (southern Burma) *''B. t. eurus'' (de Nicéville, 1894) (Sumatra) *''B. t. yapana'' Fruhstorfer (Batu Island) *''B. t. externa'' (de Nicéville, 1894) (Nias) *''B. t. eion'' (de Nicéville, 1894) (Java) *''B. t. veyana'' Fruhstorfer (Flores) *''B. t. bellata'' (Druce, 1873) (Borneo) *''B. t. ira'' (Moore, 1896) (Burma) *''B. t. salpona'' (Fruhstorfer, 1909) (Natuna Island) *''B. t. eson'' (de Nicéville, 1894) (Palawan)


Description

''Bassarona teuta'' can reach a wingspan of .Samui Butterflies
/ref> The upperside of the wings is dark brown, with a discal band composed of a continuous series of cream-colored spots. A small spot is present near the apex of the forewings. The underside of the wings is pale brown. Females are quite similar but larger and much paler, with a pale bluish-white discal band.India Biodiversity Portal
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Range

This species can be found in
Assam Assam (; ) is a state in northeastern India, south of the eastern Himalayas along the Brahmaputra and Barak River valleys. Assam covers an area of . The state is bordered by Bhutan and Arunachal Pradesh to the north; Nagaland and Manipur ...
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Myanmar Myanmar, ; UK pronunciations: US pronunciations incl. . Note: Wikipedia's IPA conventions require indicating /r/ even in British English although only some British English speakers pronounce r at the end of syllables. As John C. Wells, Joh ...
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Malaya Malaya refers to a number of historical and current political entities related to what is currently Peninsular Malaysia in Southeast Asia: Political entities * British Malaya (1826–1957), a loose collection of the British colony of the Straits ...
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Thailand Thailand ( ), historically known as Siam () and officially the Kingdom of Thailand, is a country in Southeast Asia, located at the centre of the Indochinese Peninsula, spanning , with a population of almost 70 million. The country is bo ...
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Pulau Tioman Tioman Island ( ms, Pulau Tioman) is a mukim and an island in Rompin District, Pahang, Malaysia. It is located off the east coast of the state, and is some long and wide. It has seven villages, the largest and most populous being Kampung Tek ...
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Langkawi Langkawi, officially known by its sobriquet Langkawi, the Jewel of Kedah ( ms, Langkawi Permata Kedah ), is a duty-free island and an archipelago of 99 islands (plus five small islands visible only at low tide in the Strait of Malacca) locate ...
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Andamans The Andaman Islands () are an archipelago in the northeastern Indian Ocean about southwest off the coasts of Myanmar's Ayeyarwady Region. Together with the Nicobar Islands to their south, the Andamans serve as a maritime boundary between the ...
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Java Java (; id, Jawa, ; jv, ꦗꦮ; su, ) is one of the Greater Sunda Islands in Indonesia. It is bordered by the Indian Ocean to the south and the Java Sea to the north. With a population of 151.6 million people, Java is the world's List ...
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Sumatra Sumatra is one of the Sunda Islands of western Indonesia. It is the largest island that is fully within Indonesian territory, as well as the sixth-largest island in the world at 473,481 km2 (182,812 mi.2), not including adjacent i ...
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Borneo Borneo (; id, Kalimantan) is the third-largest island in the world and the largest in Asia. At the geographic centre of Maritime Southeast Asia, in relation to major Indonesian islands, it is located north of Java, west of Sulawesi, and eas ...
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Batu Islands The Batu Islands are an archipelago of Indonesia located in the Indian Ocean, off the west coast of Sumatra, between Nias and Siberut. The three primary islands, of approximately equal size, are Pini, Tanahmasa, and Tanahbala. There are seventy ...
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Nias Nias ( id, Pulau Nias, Nias language: ''Tanö Niha'') (sometimes called Little Sumatra in English) is an island located off the western coast of Sumatra, Indonesia. Nias is also the name of the archipelago () of which the island is the centre, ...
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Flores Flores is one of the Lesser Sunda Islands, a group of islands in the eastern half of Indonesia. Including the Komodo Islands off its west coast (but excluding the Solor Archipelago to the east of Flores), the land area is 15,530.58 km2, and th ...
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Natuna Islands ''(Sacred Ocean, Fortune Land) , image_map = , pushpin_map = Indonesia Riau Islands#Indonesia Sumatra#Indonesia#South China Sea , pushpin_map_caption = Location in Riau Islands##Location in Sumatra##Location in I ...
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Palawan Palawan (), officially the Province of Palawan ( cyo, Probinsya i'ang Palawan; tl, Lalawigan ng Palawan), is an archipelagic province of the Philippines that is located in the region of Mimaropa. It is the largest province in the country in ...
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Gallery

File:BassaronaGupta211 2.jpg, Illustration of ''Bassarona teuta'' form ''gupta'' File:BassaronaTeuta210 1.jpg, Illustration of ''Bassarona teuta'', dorsal view File:BassaronaTeuta210 1b.jpg, Lateral view


References


"''Euthalia teuta gupta'' (de Niceville, 1886)"
at ''A Check List of Butterflies in Indo-China'' Bassarona Butterflies of Asia Butterflies of Indochina Butterflies of Indonesia Butterflies of Java Butterflies of Malaysia Butterflies of Singapore Lepidoptera of Thailand Butterflies described in 1848 Taxa named by Henry Doubleday {{Limenitidinae-stub