Cirrochroa tyche
| Common yeoman | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Nymphalidae |
| Genus: | Cirrochroa |
| Species: | C. tyche |
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| Cirrochroa tyche | |
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Cirrochroa tyche, the common yeoman, is a species of nymphalid butterfly found in forested areas of tropical South Asia and Southeast Asia.[1][2]
The wings of the common yeoman are tawny orange with black distal margin on the upperside. There are black post-discal spots on the hindwing. Both wings have a silvery white transverse band.
Subspecies
- C. t. tyche (central and southern Philippines)
- C. t. anjira Moore, 1877 (Andamans)
- C. t. aurica Eliot, 1978 (Pulau Aur, Pulau Tioman, Pulau Permanggil)
- C. t. laudabilis Fruhstorfer, 1900 (Palawan, Dumaran)
- C. t. lesseta Fruhstorfer, 1912 (southern China, Hainan and possibly Hong Kong)
- C. t. mithila Moore, 1872 (Sikkim and Assam to Indochina and southern Yunnan)
- C. t. rotundata Butler, 1879 (southern Burma and possibly Java and Sumatra)
- C. t. thilina Fruhstorfer, 1905 (Borneo)
References
- ^ Wynter-Blyth, Mark Alexander (1957). Butterflies of the Indian Region. Bombay, India: Bombay Natural History Society. ISBN 978-8170192329.
- ^ "Cirrochroa Doubleday, [1847]" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms