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Small Leopard
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Small Leopard

Phalanta alcippe

Phalanta alcippe, the small leopard, is a butterfly of the nymphalid or brush-footed butterfly family found in Asia.

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Description

Wet-season form: Male and female. Upperside bright ochreous. Forewing with two pairs of slender black wavy bars across the cell and a similar pair at end of cell; a black broad inner-discal irregular streak extending obliquely outward beyond the cell from the costa to upper median, followed below the cell by four short narrow streaks, the two upper placed between the medians, and the two lower in the sub-median interspace, with an outer medial streak also beyond the latter; beyond is a medial discal row of black spots, the two upper of which are either lunate and confluent, or separate, the lower four rounded, the lowest being more or less diffused; between the inner-discal costal streak and the latter row of spots is a short black sinuous streak decreasing from the costa to near upper median; a submarginal sinuous line and the outer border black, enclosing a row of ochreous lunulas, of which latter the three upper are small and obsolescent, the next more or less dentate, and the lower decreasingly linear. Hindwing with two slender blackish cell-bars, two at its end, an inner-discal transverse irregular sinuous line, a similar medial-discal line, followed by an outer-discal row of black rounded spots, a sub-marginal sinuous line, a narrower more even outer line, and black narrow outer border. …

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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 68461.