Euploea climena (Stoll, [1782])
Climena Crow
 (one synonym: Cratia limnoria Hübner, 1816)
DANAINAE,   NYMPHALIDAE,   PAPILIONOIDEA
 
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Stella Crossley

Euploea climena
(Specimen : courtesy of Oxford University Natural History Museum)

The adult butterflies of this species are dark brown, with the hindwings fading to white at the edges.

Euploea climena
underside
(Specimen : courtesy of Oxford University Natural History Museum)

The undersides are similar but have bluish spots under each wing. The wingspan is about 6 cms.

Various races of this species occur in

  • Indonesia,

    and subspecies occuring in Australia are

  • macleari Butler, 1887, on
    Christmas Island, and

  • malindeva Waterhouse, G.A. & Lyell, G. 1914, in the north of
    Western Australia.

    Further reading :

    Michael F. Braby,
    Butterflies of Australia,
    CSIRO Publishing, Melbourne 2000, vol. 2, pp. 610-611.

    Caspar Stoll,
    Papillons exotiques,
    in Pieter Cramer:
    De uitlandsche kapellen, voorkomende in de drie waereld,
    Volume 4 (1782), p. 207, figs. E, F, and also Plate 389, figs. E, F.

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    (updated 20 March 2004, 4 December 2013, 2 March 2015, 16 June 2020)