Lexias dirtea
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Nymphalidae |
| Genus: | Lexias |
| Species: | L. dirtea
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| Binomial name | |
| Lexias dirtea Fabricius, 1793
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Lexias dirtea, the archduke, is a species of butterfly of the family Nymphalidae.
Description
Lexias dirtea has a wingspan of about 80–100 millimetres (3.1–3.9 in). In this species sexual dichromatism is extreme. In males the uppersides of the wings are mainly velvety black, with metallic blue green on the margins, while in the females the uppersides of the wings are mainly brownish, covered by several rows of yellowish-whitish spots.
Distribution
This species can be found in
Burma, Northern Thailand, southern China, Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam, Myanmar, Malaysia, Sumatra, Java, Borneo and the Philippines
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Habitat
It lives primarily in virgin swamp forests.
Subspecies
- L. d. dirtea (north-east India, Naga Hills)
- L. d. khasiana (north-east Burma, Yunnan)
- L. d. toonchai (northern Thailand)
- L. d. agosthena southern China (Guangdong), Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam
- L. d. merguia (southern )
- L. d. montana (Sumatra)
- L. d. inimitabilis (Siberut, Mentawei Islands)
- L. d. insulanus (Bangka, Lingga, Singkep)
- L. d. javana (western Java)
- L. d. aquilus (Anambasgroup)
- L. d. baliaris (Natuna Islands)
- L. d. chalcedonides (Borneo)
- L. d. annae (Bawean)
- L. d. palawana (Philippines, Palawan)
- ??L. d. iwasakii
- L. d. bontouxi (southern Yunnan)
References
- BioLib.cz
- "Lexias Boisduval, 1832" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
External links
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