''Ideopsis juventa'', the wood nymph, gray glassy tiger or grey glassy tiger, 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
Southeast Asia, also spelled South East Asia and South-East Asia, and also known as Southeastern Asia, South-eastern Asia or SEA, is the geographical United Nations geoscheme for Asia#South-eastern Asia, south-eastern region of Asia, consistin ...
.
[Guide to the Butterflies of the Malayan Woods. Toronto:Metro Toronto Zoo.]
This butterfly is dark gray or black with two rows of circular white dots along the margins of its wings and elongated white patches closer to the body. The elongated white patches appear to radiate from the thorax.
File:Danaine kleptopharmacophagy.jpg, Ideopsis juventa(middle) along with Danaus ismare(right) and Euploea algea
''Euploea algea'', the long branded blue crow, is a butterfly found in India and Southeast Asia that belongs to the crows and tigers, that is, the Danaid group of the brush-footed butterflies family.
See also
*Danainae
*Nymphalidae
*List of but ...
(left)
Life Cycle
File:Ideopsis juventa - upperside (Cropped).JPG, Adult
File:Wood Nymph Larva.jpg, Larva
File:Wood Nymph Pupa.jpg, Pupa
Subspecies
*''I. j. juventa'' (Java, Bali)
*''I. j. pseudosimilis''
van Eecke, 1915 (Sumatra, Bangka)
*''I. j. scrobia''
van Eecke, 1915 (Belitung)
*''I. j. sapana''
Talbot, 1943 (Kangean)
*''I. j. longa''
Doherty, 1891 (Enggano)
*''I. j. stictica''
Fruhstorfer, 1899 (Sumbawa)
*''I. j. phana''
Fruhstorfer, 1904 (Lombok)
*''I. j. kallatia''
Fruhstorfer, 1904 (Kalao)
*''I. j. lycosura''
Fruhstorfer, 1910 (Bonerate)
*''I. j. sitah''
(Fruhstorfer, 1904) (Natuna Islands, Islands on east coast of Malaya)
*''I. j. kinitis''
Fruhstorfer, 1904 (northern Borneo)
*''I. j. ishma''
Butler, 1869 (Sulawesi)
*''I. j. garia''
Fruhstorfer, 1904 (Philippines: Basilan)
*''I. j. manillana''
Moore, 1883 (Philippines: Luzon)
*''I. j. luzonica''
Moore, 1883 (Philippines: Babuyanes)
*''I. j. satellitica''
Fruhstorfer, 1899 (Selajar)
*''I. j. sophonisbe''
Fruhstorfer, 1904 (Sula Mangoli)
*''I. j. sequana''
Fruhstorfer, 1910 (Tukangbesi Islands)
*''I. j. tontoliensis''
(Fruhstorfer, 1897) (north-eastern Sulawesi)
*''I. j. lirungensis''
Fruhstorfer, 1899 (Talaud Islands)
*''I. j. curtisi''
Moore, 1883 (Halmahera, Ternate, Bachan)
*''I. j. ellida''
Fruhstorfer, 1904 (Obi)
*''I. j. meganire''
(Godart, 1819) (Buru, Ambon, Serang)
*''I. j. bosnika''
(Talbot, 1943) (Biak)
*''I. j. sobrina''
(Boisduval, 1832) (West Irian)
*''I. j. purpurata''
(Butler, 1866) (Salawati, Misool, Waigeu)
*''I. j. tanais''
(Fruhstorfer, 1904) (Geelvink Bay)
*''I. j. kolleri''
(Hulstaert, 1923) (West Irian)
*''I. j. hollandia''
(Talbot, 1943) (West Irian: Humboldt Bay)
*''I. j. metaxa''
Fruhstorfer, 1910 (Finschhafe, Huon Gulf, New Guinea)
*''I. j. eugenia''
(Fruhstorfer, 1907) (north-western New Guinea, Vulcan, Dampier, Rooke Islands)
*''I. j. georgina''
Fruhstorfer, 1904 (south-eastern Papua)
*''I. j. sobrinoides''
Butler, 1882 (Admiralty Islands to New Britain to New Ireland to the Solomon Islands)
*''I. j. zanira''
Fruhsorfer, 1904 (Maleita, Savo)
File:IdeopsisJuventaTontoliensisMUpUnAC1.jpg, ''I. j. tontoliensis'', male
File:Ideopsis juventa - Warembungan(1).JPG, ''Ideopsis juventa'' at Warembungan, Minahasa Regency, North Sulawesi
References
Ideopsis
Butterflies of Borneo
Butterflies of Java
Butterflies described in 1777
Taxa named by Pieter Cramer
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