''Ideopsis gaura'', the smaller wood nymph, is a species of
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
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 ...
in the
Danainae
Danainae is a subfamily of the family Nymphalidae, the brush-footed butterflies. It includes the Daniadae, or milkweed butterflies, who lay their eggs on various milkweeds on which their larvae (caterpillars) feed, as well as the clearwing butt ...
subfamily. It is found in
Southeast Asia
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.
Larvae feed on ''
Melodinus'' especially ''
M. laevigatus''.
Adults are
mimicked by ''
Graphium delessertii'' and ''
Cyclosia pieridoides''.
Subspecies
Listed alphabetically:
"''Ideopsis'' Horsfield, 1857"
at Markku Savela's ''Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms''
*''I. g. anapina'' Semper, 1892
*''I. g. anapis'' (C. & R. Felder, 1861)
*''I. g. bracara'' Fruhstofer, 1910
*''I. g. canlaonii'' Jumalon, 1971
*''I. g. costalis'' (Moore, 1883)
*''I. g. daos'' (Boisduval, 836
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Events
By place Abbasid Caliphate
* Driven by tensions between his favoured Turkish guard and the populac ...
*''I. g. eudora'' (Gray, 1846)
*''I. g. gaura'' (Horsfield, 829
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Year 829 ( DCCCXXIX) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
Events
By place
Byzantine Empire
* October 2 – Emperor Michael II dies after an 8-year reign in C ...
*''I. g. glaphyra'' Moore, 1883
*''I. g. kajangensis'' Okubo, 1983
*''I. g. lingana'' Fruhstorfer, 1910
*''I. g. natunensi''s Fruhstorfer, 1910
*''I. g. nigrocostalis'' Hagen, 1902
*''I. g. messala'' Fruhstorfer, 1910
*''I. g. palawana'' Fruhstorfer, 1910
*''I. g. perakana'' Fruhstorfer, 1899
*''I. g. pseudocostalis'' van Eecke, 1914
References
Ideopsis
Butterflies of Indochina
Butterflies described in 1829
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