'' Euthalia nara'', the bronze duke, is a butterfly of the family Nymphalidae ( Limenitidinae). 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 ...

."''Euthalia''" Hübner, [1819
at Markku Savela's ''Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms''

Description

''Adolias nara'' n. sp.—Female. Upperside dark glossy golden olive-green, with blackish marginal and sub-marginal lines : forewing with oblique transverse row of six white spots, from middle of costal margin to near posterior angle, also two small sub-apical white spots ; marks within discoidal cell black : hind-wing with two white spots on costal margin near the angle. Underside glossy verdigris -green, apically olive-green : fore-wing with markings as above, but more defined and whiter ; lower part of disc patched with blue-black : hind-wing with transverse row of six white spots from costal margin to near the posterior angle ; indistinct discoidal markings. Ciliae white. Expanse 3 and 5/12inches.In Museum Royal Entomological Society">Entomological Society of London.

Subspecies

*''E. n. nara'' India, Sikkim, Nepal, N.Assam; Burma, Yunnan *''E. n. alutoya'' Fruhstorfer, 1913 *''E. n. nagaensis'' Tytler, 1940 Naga Hils *''E. n. kalawrica'' Tytler, 1940 Shan States *''E. n. shania'' Evans, 1924 Shan States, Thailand, Yunnan *''E. n. hainanana'' Gu, 1994 Hainan

References

Butterflies described in 1859 Euthalia, nara Taxa named by Frederic Moore Butterflies of Asia {{Nymphalidae-stub