Euploea usipetes

Euploea usipetes is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It was described by William Chapman Hewitson in 1858. It is endemic to New Guinea and neighbouring Cape York Peninsula in the Australasian realm.[2]

Euploea usipetes
From Hewitson's Illustrations of New Species of Exotic Butterflies
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Nymphalidae
Genus: Euploea
Species:
E. usipetes
Binomial name
Euploea usipetes
Synonyms
  • purus van Eecke, 1915
  • Euploea hippias Miskin, 1890
  • Hirpada rezia Kirby, 1894
  • astrifera Fruhstorfer, 1910
  • albodiscalis Fruhstorfer, 1910

Subspecies
  • E. u. usipetes (New Guinea, Aru, Papua, Yule Island, Cape York, Thursday Island).
  • E. u. rezia (Kirby, 1894) (West Irian, New Guinea - Papua, Yule Island, Samarai, Goodenough, Fergusson Island).

References
  1. Hewitson, 1858 Illustrations of New Species of Exotic Butterflies Selected Chiefly from the Collections of W. Wilson Saunders and William C. Hewitson.
  2. Seitz, A., 1912-1927. Die Indo-Australien Tagfalter Grossschmetterlinge Erde 9
  • Euploea at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms


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