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''Dodona eugenes'', the Tailed Punch, is a small but striking butterfly 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 ...
that belongs to the Punches and Judies, that is, the family
Riodinidae Riodinidae is the family of metalmark butterflies. The common name "metalmarks" refers to the small, metallic-looking spots commonly found on their wings. The 1532 species are placed in 146 genera. Although mostly Neotropical in distribution, t ...
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Description

From
Charles Thomas Bingham Charles Thomas Bingham (16 April 1848, India – 18 October 1908 West Kensington, London) was an Irish military officer and entomologist. Bingham was born in India of an old Irish family, and he was educated in Ireland.Kirby, W.F , 1909 Obituary ...
(1905) ''
The Fauna of British India, Including Ceylon and Burma ''The Fauna of British India'' (short title) with long titles including ''The Fauna of British India, Including Ceylon and Burma'', and ''The Fauna of British India Including the Remainder of the Oriental Region'' is a series of scientific books th ...
, Butterflies'', Vol. 1:
Male: Upperside: closely resembles ''D. dipaea'' in the ground-colour and markings, but on the hind wing the markings are broader and more diffuse, and the lobe has a short filamentous black white-edged tail. Underside a brighter brown than in ''D. dipaea''; the markings very similar, but twice as broad. *Expanse: 38-49 mm *Habitat: The Himalayas from Murree to
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;
Assam Assam (; ) is a state in northeastern India, south of the eastern Himalayas along the Brahmaputra and Barak River valleys. Assam covers an area of . The state is bordered by Bhutan and Arunachal Pradesh to the north; Nagaland and Manipur ...
, the Khasi and
Jaintia Hills The Khasi and Jaintia Hills are a mountainous region that was mainly part of Assam and Meghalaya. This area is now part of the present Indian constitutive state of Meghalaya (formerly part of Assam), which includes the present districts of East ...
. *Larva: More or less onisciform, pale emerald-green with two dorsal blue lines somewhat sparingly covered with short hairs, it Feeds on grasses and hill-bamboo. *Pupa: pale green, with cross check o£ darker green lines. Head bifid, flat in front and angulated below.


Subspecies

*''D. e. eugenes'' Sikkim to Assam to Burma, Tibet, Himalayas (west as far as Murree), Northeast India (hills), North Thailand, Indo China, West China. *''D. e. chaseni'' Corbet, 1941 Peninsular Malaya *''D. e. venox'' Fruhstorfer, 1912 Sikkim, Assam, Yunnan *'' D. e. esakii'' Shirôzu, 1953 Formosa *''D. e. formosana'' Matsumura, 1919 Taiwan


See also

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List of butterflies of India The following is a list of the butterflies of India. India has extremely diverse terrain, climate and vegetation, which comprises extremes of heat cold, desert and jungle, of low-lying plains and the highest mountains, of dryness and dampness, i ...
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List of butterflies of India (Riodinidae) The family Riodinidae or metalmarks are a family of small Old and New World butterflies. The common name refers to the bright, metallic spots marking the wings of many of its members. In India they are better referred to as the family of Punches a ...


References

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Biology

The larva feeds on '' Adundinaria'' Dodona (butterfly) Fauna of Pakistan Butterflies of Asia Butterflies described in 1868 {{Riodinidae-stub