Long-branded Blue Crow Butterfly

Euploea algea, the long branded blue crow, is a butterfly found in India and Southeast Asia that belongs to the crows and tigers, that is, the Danaid group of the brush-footed butterflies family.

This is a large light brown butterfly with a wingspan of 60 to 70 mm depending on the subspecies, presents an upperside with forewings (dependent on the subspecies) with small metallic blue to completely metallic blue spots.The reverse is light brown dotted with small white dots in different numbers depending on the subspecies.