Eudocima salaminia ( Cramer, 1777 )

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 : 18

Eudocima salaminia ( Cramer, 1777)

( Figs 10 : C–D, 19: G, 25: C–F, 31: E, 93: A, C)

This species is separated from similar E. dividens as described above. It can also be confused with similar E. nigricilia and can be separated as follows: the dorsal forewing background color is lighter and more greenish, the medial patch is more deeply notched the distal side, and the hindwing fringe is checkered cream and black rather than contiguous black. It is a widespread species from India to Fiji in the central Pacific, north to Korea and Japan and south to New Guinea and Australia ( Zilli et al. 2017).

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FIGURE 10. Eudocima salaminia and Eudocima discrepans group adults (dorsal aspect).