''Prioneris philonome'', the redspot sawtooth, is a

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 family

Pieridae The Pieridae are a large family of butterflies with about 76 genera containing about 1,100 species, mostly from tropical Africa and tropical Asia with some varieties in the more northern regions of North America and Eurasia.DeVries P. J. in Levi ...

.It was described by

Jean Baptiste Boisduval Jean Baptiste Alphonse Déchauffour de Boisduval (24 June 1799 – 30 December 1879) was a French lepidopterist, botanist, and physician. He was one of the most celebrated lepidopterists of France, and was the co-founder of the Société entomol ...

in 1836. 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 ...

. Seitz, A., 1912-1927. ''Die Indo-Australien Tagfalter Grossschmetterlinge Erde'' 9 File:Prioneris philonome vollenhovi.JPG, ''Prioneris philonome vollenhovi'' File:Prioneris philonome 2.jpg, Mud-puddling

Subspecies

*''Prioneris philonome philonome'' (eastern Java) *''Prioneris philonome vollenhovii'' Wallace, 1867 (Borneo) *''Prioneris philonome themana'' Fruhstorfer, 1903 (Peninsular Malaysia, Sumatra)

References

External links

''Prioneris''
at Markku Savela's ''Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms'' {{Taxonbar, from=Q2720077 Prioneris Butterflies described in 1836