Hebomoia glaucippe (Linnaeus, 1758)

Taxonomy

class Insecta → subclass Pterygota → infraclass Neoptera → superorder Holometabola → order Lepidoptera → superfamily Papilionoidea → family Pieridae → subfamily Pierinae → tribe Colotini → genus Hebomoia → species Hebomoia glaucippe

Species name(s)

Hebomoia glaucippe (Linnaeus, 1758) = Papilio glaucippe Linnaeus, 1758 = Hebomoia solomonensis Swinhoe, 1917 = Hebomoia glaucippe glaucippe = Hebomoia glaucippe roepstorffi Staudinger, 1885. [9, 85, 187]

The Great Orange Tip.

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Expansion

This species marks on the maps: 1.

Zoogeographical regions

Indo-Malayan.

Detailed information with references

Distribution

From the North-West of India to Myanmar, Thailand, Laos, Vietnam, Hainan, southern China [132].

Imago Habitus and Differences from alike species

Wingspan 70-90 mm. A large species of the orange-tip butterfly, male UP is creamy white with a large bright orenge apical patch, outlined by blsck, HW with a submarginal spot in space 7 and a smaller spot in space 6; UN white marked with brown like dried leaf except whitish at the lower portion of FW. Female is darker with brown dusting especially the base and along the costa of FW, HW with series of triangular marginal spots and postdiscal spots. [144].

Larva food plants / other food objects

Cleome spinosa, Crateva adansonii, Crateva magna, Crateva religiosa [144].

Subspecies of Hebomoia glaucippe

Hebomoia glaucippe anaxandra Fruhstorfer, 1910. [9]
H. g. anomala Pendlebury, 1939. [9]
H. g. aturia Fruhstorfer, 1910. [9]
H. g. aurantiaca Fruhstorfer, 1907. [9]
H. g. australis Butler, 1898. [9]
H. g. borneensis (Wallace, 1863). [9]
H. g. celebensis (Wallace, 1863). [9]
H. g. chewi Morita, 2006. [9]
H. g. cuyonicola Fruhstorfer, 1907. [9]
H. g. cyelonica Fruhstorfer, 1907. [9]
H. g. erinna Fruhstorfer, 1910. [9]
H. g. felderi (Vollenhoven, 1865). [9]
H. g. flavomarginata Pagenstecher, 1896. [9]
H. g. formosana Fruhstorfer, 1908. [9]
H. g. glaucippe. [9]
H. g. javanensis (Wallace, 1863). [9]
H. g. liukiuensis Fruhstorfer, 1898. [9]
H. g. lombockiana Butler, 1878. [9]
H. g. palawensis Fruhstorfer, 1907. [9]
H. g. philippensis (Wallace, 1863). [9]
H. g. reducta Fruhstorfer, 1907. [9]
H. g. roepstorffi Wood-Mason, 1880. [9]
H. g. sangirica Fruhstorfer, 1911. [9]
H. g. sulaensis Fruhstorfer, 1907. [9]
H. g. sulphurea (Wallace, 1863). [9]
H. g. sumatrana Hagen, 1890. [9]
H. g. theia Nishimura, 1987. [9]
H. g. timorensis (Wallace, 1863). [9]
H. g. uedai Morita, 1996. [9]
H. g. vossi (Maitland, 1859). [9]

Authors

Initial species uploading to the site: Peter Khramov.

Photos: Svetlana Shchavelina, Aleksey Gnilenkov.

Text data: Vasiliy Feoktistov, Svetlana Shchavelina.

The species characteristics formalization: Peter Khramov, Vasiliy Feoktistov.

References

[9] Tree of Life (funet.fi), 2012
[85] Lepidoptera species catalogue, Lepidoptera.ru, 2015
[132] http://yutaka.it-n.jp/
[144] Pisuth Ek-Amnuay "Butterflies of Thailand". 2nd Revised edition. Bangkok, 2012
[187] Species 2000, http://www.sp2000.org