Green Baron

About the Green Baron

Euthalia adonia is a butterfly of the family Nymphalidae (Limenitidinae). It is found in the Indomalayan realm. E. adonia is, in contradistinction to lubentina, a chiefly insular species, occurring on the continent only in Farther India, and reaching the Smaller Sunda Islands. The male differs from lubentina in having on the forewing the white submarginal dots smaller and placed vertically above one another; the upper surface lacks the red cellular spots. Males can be recognized by the vertical, band-shaped white median area of the forewing, generally extending also to the hindwing where it varies according to the locality. Also the males have as a rule the red median spots on the forewings nearly twice as large than in lubentina, but this does not hold good on the smaller islands. The sexual organs closely resemble those of lubentina, the uncus being somewhat longer and more robust, the valve with two distinct distal teeth which are absent in lubentina-, ventrally not distended. As also in the preceding species of the lubentina group, the third subcostal branch arises in both sexes at an equal distance beyond the cell in the forewing, differing therein from the... Wikipedia →