Common yeoman
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Nymphalidae
Genus: Cirrochroa
Species:
C. tyche
Binomial name
Cirrochroa tyche
Felder & Felder, 1861
Synonyms
  • Cirrochroa mithila Moore, 1872
  • Cirrochroa zebuna Fruhstorfer, 1912
  • Cirrochroa guimarensis Fruhstorfer, 1912
  • Cirrochroa rotundata Butler, 1879
  • Cirrochroa moeris Fruhstorfer, 1912
  • Cirrochroa tanaquil Fruhstorfer, 1912
  • Cirrochroa anjira Moore, 1877

Cirrochroa tyche, the common yeoman, is a species of nymphalid butterfly found in forested areas of tropical South Asia and Southeast Asia.[1][2]

The wings of the common yeoman are tawny orange with black distal margin on the upperside. There are black post-discal spots on the hindwing. Both wings have a silvery white transverse band.

Subspecies

  • C. t. tyche (central and southern Philippines)
  • C. t. anjira Moore, 1877 (Andamans)
  • C. t. aurica Eliot, 1978 (Pulau Aur, Pulau Tioman, Pulau Permanggil)
  • C. t. laudabilis Fruhstorfer, 1900 (Palawan, Dumaran)
  • C. t. lesseta Fruhstorfer, 1912 (southern China, Hainan and possibly Hong Kong)
  • C. t. mithila Moore, 1872 (Sikkim and Assam to Indochina and southern Yunnan)
  • C. t. rotundata Butler, 1879 (southern Burma and possibly Java and Sumatra)
  • C. t. thilina Fruhstorfer, 1905 (Borneo)

References

  1. ↑ Wynter-Blyth, Mark Alexander (1957). Butterflies of the Indian Region. Bombay, India: Bombay Natural History Society. ISBN 978-8170192329.
  2. ↑ "Cirrochroa Doubleday, [1847]" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms


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