Dodona eugenes

Dodona eugenes, the tailed Punch, is a small but striking species of butterfly found in the Indomalayan realm that belongs to the Punches and Judies, that is, the family Riodinidae.

Tailed Punch
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Riodinidae
Genus:	Dodona
Species:	D. eugenes
Binomial name
Dodona eugenes Bates, [1868]

Description

From Charles Thomas Bingham (1905) The Fauna of British India, Including Ceylon and Burma, Butterflies, Vol. 1:

Subspecies

• D. e. eugenes Sikkim to Assam to Burma, Tibet, Himalayas (west as far as Murree), Northeast India (hills), North Thailand, Indo China, West China.
• D. e. chaseni Corbet, 1941 Peninsular Malaya
• D. e. venox Fruhstorfer, 1912 Sikkim, Assam, Yunnan
• D. e. esakii Shirôzu, 1953 Formosa
• D. e. formosana Matsumura, 1919 Taiwan

See also

• List of butterflies of India
• List of butterflies of India (Riodinidae)

References

• Evans, W.H. (1932). The Identification of Indian Butterflies (2nd ed.). Mumbai, India: Bombay Natural History Society.
• Wynter-Blyth, Mark Alexander (1957). Butterflies of the Indian Region. Bombay, India: Bombay Natural History Society. ISBN 978-8170192329. {{cite book}}: ISBN / Date incompatibility (help)

Biology

The larva feeds on Adundinaria