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''Euploea alcathoe'', commonly known as the no-brand crow, Eichhorn's crow or striped black crow, is a common butterfly found from India to Borneo, and in the Moluccas, New Guinea and Australia. It belongs to the crows and tigers subfamily of the Nymphalidae (brushfooted butterflies). The wingspan is about . Adults are black, fading somewhat towards the wing margins. There are arcs of white spots at each forewing apex and around each hindwing termen.〔(Australian Insects )〕 The butterflies keep to within of the ground and they can be found in patches of sun underneath the forest canopy where they alight on understory leaves and small twigs. The larvae feed on ''Nerium indicum'', ''Nerium oleander'', ''Mandevilla'', ''Asclepias'', ''Hoya australis'', ''Marsdenia australis'', ''Ficus platypoda'', ''Gymnanthera oblonga'' and ''Ficus obliqua'' in Australia. The larvae of the endangered Gove subspecies, ''Euploea alcathoe enastri'', also feed on the vines of ''Parsonsia alboflavescens'',〔 and ''Tylophora benthamii''.〔 Young larvae are pale orange with four pairs of black tentacles (filaments). Later instars develop a black and white pair of bands and several black bars on each abdominal segment. Full-grown larvae reach a length of . ''Euploea alcathoe'' adults are most common in the monsoonal wet season between December and May in Australia, and there may be several generations over the course of a year.〔 ==Subspecies== *''Euploea alcathoe alcathoe'' *''Euploea alcathoe eichhorni'' Staudinger, 1884 (Cape York to Ingham)〔 *''Euploea alcathoe enastri'' (Gove Peninsula)〔 *''Euploea alcathoe alecto'' Butler, 1866 (Buru, Ambon, Serang) *''Euploea alcathoe zodica'' Fruhstorfer, 1904 (Obi) *''Euploea alcathoe pierretii'' C. & R. Felder, () (West Irian) *''Euploea alcathoe macgregori'' Kirby, 1889 (D'Entrecasteaux Islands) *''Euploea alcathoe diadema'' Moore, 1883 (Papua, Goodenough) *''Euploea alcathoe coffea'' Fruhstorfer, 1910 (eastern New Guinea, Karkar Island) *''Euploea alcathoe samaraina'' Carpenter, 1953 (south-eastern Papua New Guinea: Samarai Island) *''Euploea alcathoe monilifera'' (Moore, 1883) (Cape York, Thursday Island)〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Euploea alcathoe」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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