''Idea idea'', or Linnaeus' idea, is a large

butterfly Butterflies are insects in the macrolepidopteran clade Rhopalocera from the Order (biology), order Lepidoptera, which also includes moths. Adult butterflies have large, often brightly coloured wings, and conspicuous, fluttering flight. The ...

that belongs to the danaid group of the family

Nymphalidae 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 ...

. It was described by

Carl Linnaeus Carl Linnaeus (; 23 May 1707 – 10 January 1778), also known after his ennoblement in 1761 as Carl von Linné Blunt (2004), p. 171. (), was a Swedish botanist, zoologist, taxonomist, and physician who formalised binomial nomenclature, the ...

in his 1763 '' Centuria Insectorum''. It is found in the

Australasian realm The Australasian realm is a biogeographic realm that is coincident with, but not (by some definitions) the same as, the geographical region of Australasia. The realm includes Australia, the island of New Guinea (comprising Papua New Guinea and ...

. Seitz, A., 1912-1927. ''Die Indo-Australien Tagfalter Grossschmetterlinge Erde'' 9

Subspecies

*''I. i. idea'' (Ambon, Serang) *''I. i. aza'' (Boisduval, 1832) (Buru) *''I. i. sula'' (de Nicéville, 1900) (Sula Islands)

References

External links

"''Idea'' Fabricius, 1807"
at Markku Savela's ''Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms'' Butterflies described in 1763 Idea (butterfly) Butterflies of Indonesia Taxa named by Carl Linnaeus {{Danainae-stub