Libythea celtis
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L. celtis
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| Libythea celtis (Laicharting, 1782)
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The European Beak or Nettle-tree Butterfly (Libythea celtis) is a butterfly of the Libytheinae group of the Brush-footed butterflies family.
Description
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The upperside ground colour is rich silky brown. The fore wing has the cell filled with a broad orange-yellow streak which is subapically deeply indented above; a small discal orange-yellow spot present in interspace 1; a much larger, similarly coloured discal spot between veins 2 and 4, on the inner side touching the cell between veins 3 and 4; a subcostal white preapical spot and a quadrate double spot in interspaces 4 and 5, placed obliquely forward to the subcostal spot; this spot whitish above, orange below. Hind wing uniform, with an irregular curved, transverse, upper postdiscal orange patch extending from just below vein 3 to interspace 6, the portion in interspace 6 often detached. Underside ground-colour : fore wing brown, apex pale purplish irrorated with minute dark transverse striae and dots, orange markings as on the upperside but paler; hind wing uniform pale purplish irrorated with minute dark dots and transverse striae. Antennae, head, thorax and abdomen dark brown ; beneath, palpi, thorax and abdomen concolorous with the tint of the underside of the hind wing.[1]
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Dosal side
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△ Ventral side
Southern Europe; Asia Minor. Also in the Chitral ranges.
References
- ↑ Bingham, C. T. 1905. Fauna of British India. Butterflies. Volume 1
External links
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