Lucinia cadma
| Lucinia cadma | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Nymphalidae |
| Genus: | Lucinia Hübner, [1823] |
| Species: | L. cadma |
| Binomial name | |
| Lucinia cadma (Drury, 1773) | |
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Lucinia cadma is a species of brush-footed butterfly (family Nymphalidae). It was first described by Dru Drury in 1773 from Jamaica. Distinct subspecies are found on other Caribbean islands.
Description
Upper side: antennae black. Head, thorax, and abdomen dark brown. Wings tawny yellow. The anterior having the extreme parts, near the tips, black; with two yellowish spots thereon, joining the anterior edges; also a round black spot situated at the lower corners on the posterior edges. Posterior wings immaculate, except a black streak placed on the anterior edges next the upper corners.
Under side: tongue black. Breast, legs, and abdomen ash-coloured. The superior wings marked and coloured as on the upper side, but less distinctly. Posterior wings tawny orange, having a broad ash-coloured bar crossing them from the anterior to the abdominal edges. On this bar are placed two eyes, with double pupils; the lower one being of a fine blue with a yellow iris; the upper one, next the anterior edges, blue and black, with a brown iris. Margins of the wings dentated.
Wing-span 2 inches (50 mm).[1]
Subspecies
- Lucinia cadma cadma (Jamaica)
- Lucinia cadma albomaculata Rindge, 1955 (Bahamas)
- Lucinia cadma sida Hübner, [1823] (Cuba)
- Lucinia cadma torrebia (Ménétriés, 1832) (Haiti)
References
- ↑ Drury, Dru (1837). Westwood, John, ed. Illustrations of Exotic Entomology. 2. p. 34. pl. XVIII.