Blue Admiral, Kaniska canace (Linnaeus, 1763).
Appearance:
The upper side of the fore and hind wings are
black, while the underside is black and brown.
The body is also completely black. Forewings have
a blue band in the wavy outer edge, a blue or
white spot at the leading edge of the wing and a
small white spot at the tip of the wing.
Hindwings show a broad blue transverse band, with
a series of small black spots and a narrow blue
band at the outermost very wavy edge.
Underside:
brownish black, covered thickly with short
transverse jet black striae; the basal halves of
the wings bordered externally by a strongly
sinuous, somewhat broken, jet-black broad line;
some similarly colored transverse short broad
marks in and below cell of forewing.
Wingspan: Has a wingspan of around 60-70
millimeters.
Habitats:
This butterfly can be found in both the wet and
intermediate zones, but only appears in high
numbers from the lower hills to the highest
mountains. It is a forest-loving species, but
also visits adjacent streams in grasslands.
Behavior:
This species is very territorial and will chase
butterflies that move into its territory. It uses
well-defined territory sticks, and will bask with
open wings, but often sits with half-open wings.
Biology/host
plants: Larvae grow on various Smilacaceae-species
(Rough-stemmed Greenbrier, Smilax
aspericaulis, Smilax zeylanica (in India), Smilax
bracteata, Smilax China, Smilax
lanceifolia, Smilax perfoliata, Smilax riparia,
Smilax sebeana, Smilax sieosmilaxi, Smilax
sieosmilaxi, japonicaerosmilaxi (japtopus).
amplexifolius, Tricyrtis hirta) og
Lilies, Liliaceae (Tiger Lily, Lilium
lancifolium).
Distribution:
This widespread species can be found as far north
as southeastern Siberia, east to Korea, Japan and
Taiwan, west to India and south to Sri Lanka,
Myanmar and parts of Indonesia, with a number of
well-marked geographic races.
Subspecies
are:
K.
c. canace
(Linnaeus, 1763). Nepal, Sikkim, Myanmar,
southrtb China, Hong Kong.
K.
c. battakana (de
Nicéville, 1896). Sumatra.
K.
c. benguetana
(Semper, 1888). Luzon.
K.
c. charonia
(Drury, 1770)
K.
c. charonides
(Stichel, 1908). Ussuri-riwer.
K.
c. drilon
(Fruhstorfer, 1912). Taiwan.
K.
c. haronica
(Moore, 1879). Sri Lanka.
K.
c. ishima (Fruhstorfer,
1899). Japan.
K.
c. javanica
(Fruhstorfer, 1912). Java, Bali, Lombok.
K.
c. maniliana
(Fruhstorfer, 1912). Borneo, Palau.
K.
c. muscosa
(Tsukada & Nishiyama, 1979). Sulawesi.
K.
c. nojaponicum
(von Siebold, 1824). Japan.
K.
c. perakana
(Fjernt, 1886). Thailand, Malaysia.
K.
c. viridis
(Evans, 1924). Southern India.
On danish: Blå
Admiral. On english: Blue
Admiral.
GBIF: Global Biodiversity
Information Facility.
World distribution:
Blue
Admiral, Kaniska canace (Linnaeus, 1763).
íNaturalist.org
began as the
Master's final project of Nate Agrin, Jessica
Kline,
and Ken-ichi Ueda at UC Berkeley's School of Information in 2008.
Blue Admiral, Kaniska canace (Linnaeus, 1763).
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