Eudocima tyrannus ( Guenée, 1852 )

Borth, Robert J. & Kons, Hugo L., 2022, Mitochondrial genetics of Ophiderini, with a new species from the Eudocima phalonia species group (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae: Calpinae), Zootaxa 5148 (1), pp. 1-151 : 21

Eudocima tyrannus ( Guenée, 1852)

( Figs 14 : E–F, 21: C, 26: O, 32: F, 93: F)

The marginal band on the hindwing is larger than in E. aurantia but barely reaches the wing margin if at all. The background color of the sharply pointed forewing is brownish rather than the variable green shading of E. sikhimensis . It can be separated from E. okurai by the shape of the oblique line as discussed under that species. Individuals from the northern portion of the range in Amur and Japan show a larger comma-shaped medial patch on the hindwing than in its southern range from Nepal, Sichuan, Vietnam and Taiwan where it has a smaller patch similar to E. okurai ( Zilli et al. 2017) .

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FIGURE 14. Southeast Asian Eudocima and Eudocima tyrannus group adults (dorsal aspect).