''Euploea modesta'', the plain blue crow, is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It was described by Arthur Gardiner Butler in 1866. It is found in the

Indomalayan realm The Indomalayan realm is one of the eight biogeographic realms. It extends across most of South and Southeast Asia and into the southern parts of East Asia. Also called the Oriental realm by biogeographers, Indomalaya spreads all over the Indi ...

and the Australasian realm. Seitz, A., 1912-1927. ''Die Indo-Australien Tagfalter Grossschmetterlinge Erde'' 9

Subspecies

*''E. m. modesta'' (India to Thailand, Vietnam, Peninsular Malaysia, Indo-China) *''E. m. lugens'' Butler, 1876 (Papua, East New Guinea) *''E. m. cerberus'' (Butler, 1882) (East New Guinea - Bismarck Archipelago, Biak) *''E. m. buxtoni'' (Moore, 1883) (Sumatra) *''E. m. lorzae'' (Moore, 1883) (Borneo) *''E. m. deheeri'' (Doherty, 1891) (Sumbawa) *''E. m. kuehni'' Röber, 1891 (Flores) *''E. m. obscura'' Pagenstecher, 1894 (Bismarck Archipelago) *''E. m. suavissima'' Fruhstorfer, 1897 (Lombok) *''E. m. salinator'' Fruhstorfer, 1904 (Alor) *''E. m. lamos'' Fruhstorfer, 1904 (East Java) *''E. m. werneri'' Fruhstorfer, 1909 (Manam Island) *''E. m. misagenes'' Fruhstorfer, 1910 (Karkar Island) *''E. m. deriopes'' Fruhstorfer, 1911 (Hainan) *''E. m. insulicola'' Strand, 1914 (Admiralty Islands) *''E. m. incerta'' Joicey & Noakes, 1915 (Biak) *''E. m. tiomana '' Corbet, 1937 (Pulau Tioman) *''E. m. jennessi'' Carpenter, 1941 (Goodenough Island)

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