Biology:Cheritra freja

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Short description: Species of butterfly

Common imperial
Close wing position of Cheritra freja Fabricius, 1793 – Common Imperial WLB.jpg
Scientific classification edit
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Lycaenidae
Genus: Cheritra
Species:
C. freja
Binomial name
Cheritra freja
(Fabricius 1793)

Cheritra freja, the common imperial,[1][2][3] is a small butterfly found in India ,[1] Myanmar, Malaysia and Sri Lanka[4] that belongs to the gossamer-winged butterflies family (Lycaenidae).[2][3]

In West Bengal, India

Subspecies

The subspecies of Cheritra freja are-[1][2][3]

  • Cheritra freja freja - Myanmar, Thailand
  • Cheritra freja butleri Cowan, 1965 – south India
  • Cheritra freja evansi Cowan, 1965 – northeast India, Myanmar, Thailand, Laos, Vietnam
  • Cheritra freja fracta Cowan, 1967 – Bangka
  • Cheritra freja frigga Fruhstorfer, 1912 – peninsular Malaya, Singapore, Sumatra
  • Cheritra freja jafra (Godart, [1824]) – Java, Bali
  • Cheritra freja pallida (Druce, 1873) – Borneo, Pulau Laut
  • Cheritra freja pseudojafra Moore, [1881] – Sri Lanka
  • Cheritra freja sabanga Toxopeus, 1929 – Pulau Weh
Cheritra freja freja Museum specimens Thailand

Description

The butterfly has a brown upperside with white bands. The hindwings consist of a tail. It is coloured from pale yellow to white on the lower side with black margins.[5]

  • Life cycle

  • Eggs

  • Larvae

  • Chrysalis

  • Chrysalis

  • Imago (dorsal view)

  • Imago (ventral view)

See also

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 R.K., Varshney; Smetacek, Peter (2015). A Synoptic Catalogue of the Butterflies of India. New Delhi: Butterfly Research Centre, Bhimtal & Indinov Publishing, New Delhi. pp. 113. doi:10.13140/RG.2.1.3966.2164. ISBN 978-81-929826-4-9. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/287980260. 
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Savela, Markku. "Cheritra freja (Fabricius, 1793)". http://www.nic.funet.fi/pub/sci/bio/life/insecta/lepidoptera/ditrysia/papilionoidea/lycaenidae/theclinae/cheritra/#freja. 
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 "Cheritra freja Fabricius, 1793 – Common Imperial". http://www.ifoundbutterflies.org/#!/sp/689/Cheritra-freja. 
  4. ↑ W. Ormiston (1924). The butterflies of Ceylon. Asian Educational Services. p. 77. ISBN 9788120618404. https://books.google.com/books?id=5J2KvAaBHyYC&pg=PA1&dq=Cheritra+freja#q=Cheritra%20freja. Retrieved 2011-10-05. 
  5. ↑ Kehimkar, Isaac (2008). The Book of Indian Butterflies. BNHS. p. 225. 
  • Evans, W.H. (1932). The Identification of Indian Butterflies (2nd ed.). Mumbai, India: Bombay Natural History Society. 
  • Gaonkar, Harish (1996). Butterflies of the Western Ghats, India (including Sri Lanka) - A Biodiversity Assessment of a Threatened Mountain System. Bangalore, India: Centre for Ecological Sciences. 
  • Gay, Thomas; Kehimkar, Isaac David; Punetha, Jagdish Chandra (1992). Common Butterflies of India. Nature Guides. Bombay, India: World Wide Fund for Nature-India by Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0195631647. 
  • Haribal, Meena (1992). The Butterflies of Sikkim Himalaya and Their Natural History. Gangtok, Sikkim, India: Sikkim Nature Conservation Foundation. 
  • Kunte, Krushnamegh (2000). Butterflies of Peninsular India. India, A Lifescape. Hyderabad, India: Universities Press. ISBN 978-8173713545. https://books.google.com/books?id=cuPPjOMcu_4C. 
  • Wynter-Blyth, Mark Alexander (1957). Butterflies of the Indian Region. Bombay, India: Bombay Natural History Society. ISBN 978-8170192329. https://books.google.com/books?id=yEkgAQAAMAAJ. 

Wikidata ☰ Q86738 entry




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