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Subspecies

*''Euploea alcathoe alcathoe'' *''Euploea alcathoe eichhorni'' Staudinger, 1884 (Cape York to Ingham) *''Euploea alcathoe enastri'' ( Gove Peninsula) *''Euploea alcathoe alecto'' Butler, 1866 (Buru, Ambon, Serang) *''Euploea alcathoe zodica'' Fruhstorfer, 1904 (Obi) *''Euploea alcathoe pierretii'' C. & R. Felder,

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Conservation

The subspecies ''enastri'' of the Gove Peninsula is classified as ''endangered''. Males have been collected from glades in rainforest and females from adjacent paperbark swampland. It is threatened by habitat destruction and degradation by water buffalo and feral pigs, and by invasion of its environment by the yellow crazy ant (''

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References

External links

* {{Taxonbar, from=Q2690647 Euploea Butterflies of Australia Butterflies described in 1819 Butterflies of Borneo Butterflies of Asia Taxa named by Jean-Baptiste Godart