Chersonesia

Chersonesia
Chersonesia risa
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Nymphalidae
Subfamily: Cyrestinae
Genus: Chersonesia
Distant, 1883[1]
Species

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Chersonesia is an Indomalayan butterfly genus in the family Nymphalidae. The common name is maplet.

Description

This genus is very close to the genus Cyrestis from which it differs by the venation of the forewing of which only the first subcostal vein originates before the end of the cell, the second originating between the apex of the cell and the base of the third subcostal vein.All Chersonesia have a rich yellow or orange ground-colour; the markings are black, consisting in the three well-known meridional stripes of which the basal and middle one are always double, whereas the third one, which is nearest the margin, is generally single (only two species having it double),not clearly defined and often widening out to a band; the other markings are a submarginal band formed of three components and adorned on the hindwing either by a blue ornamental line or in the majority of cases with a distinct ocellate chain, and finally a delicate marginal line.[2]

Taxonomy

The genus Chersonesia was described by William Lucas Distant in 1883. The name of this genus refers to the Malay Peninsula ( Chersonese )

Species

References

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  1. ^ "Chersonesia Distant, 1883" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
  2. ^ Seitz, A. 1912–1927. Die Indo-Australien Tagfalter. The Macrolepidoptera of the World 9: 1–766;pdf 767–1201,pdf pls 1–175.pdfPublic Domain This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.


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