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Chitoria sordida

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240:, with a dark brown shade in the interspace below it; ocellus and brown shading bordered inwardly by white; a subterminal dark line, and some diffuse white marks on termen below apex and at tornus. Hindwing with an incomplete discal white band and a series of white spots beyond, ending in a well-marked, broadly yellow-ringed, blue-centred, black ocellus in interspace 2; lastly, a subterminal dark line as in the forewing. Antennae brown, paler below the club; head, thorax and abdomen brown, paler beneath. 44: 31: 217: 235:
6 to tornal angle formed of more or less rectangular spots; a small spot beyond in interspace 4 and two preapical spots white. Hindwing uniform, a lunular subterminal dark line inwardly bordered by a row of dark spots, and a terminal row of pale lunules. Underside pale brownish grey. Forewing with
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The female is similar; the hindwing is more rounded and the oblique discal band on the forewing is very much broader. The wingspan is 68–80 mm.
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the discal band and spots more or less as on the upperside; a black, blind, yellow-ringed
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The Fauna of British India, Including Ceylon and Burma Butterflies
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Scientific classification
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Eukaryota
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Nymphalidae
Chitoria
Binomial name
Moore
Synonyms
nymphalid
butterfly
Asia
Glossary of entomology terms

forewing
apex
interspace
ocellus
South-East Asia
Bingham, C.T.
The Fauna of British India, Including Ceylon and Burma Butterflies
Taylor and Francis, Ltd.
Taxon identifiers
Wikidata
Q5102279
Wikispecies

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