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Hypolimnas octocula

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Species of insect

Eight-spot butterfly
H. o. marianensis on Guam
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Nymphalidae
Genus: Hypolimnas
Species: H. octocula
Binomial name
Hypolimnas octocula
Butler (1869)

Hypolimnas octocula, the eight-spot butterfly, is a species of eggfly or diadem endemic to several islands and island chains in Oceania, including New Caledonia, Vanuatu and the Mariana Islands.

It includes the following subspecies:

  • H. o. octocula Butler, 1869
  • H. o. pallas Grose-Smith
  • H. o. elsina Butler
  • H. o. formosa Herrich-Schäffer
  • H. o. marianensis

References

  1. "Hypolimnas Hübner, [1819]" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
Taxon identifiers
Hypolimnas octocula


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