Euthalia amanda
Euthalia amanda, the Sulawesi gaudy baron, is a butterfly endemic to Sulawesi, Indonesia. It was first described by William Chapman Hewitson in 1862.
Description
Male very plainly marked, above black with dark green marginal area of the forewing and greenish steel-blue border of the hindwing; the latter in addition with a black postdiscal band, a median zigzag line and conspicuous sub marginal, intranerval scallops. Female has the forewing marked as in lubentina; the hindwing with a red median band varying in width according to the locality, and with black anteterminal dots edged with red distally. Under surface of male grey-black, forewing with two red cellular streaks; female grey suffused with bluish; hindwing with two rows of red spots, as in male.
Subspecies
E. a. amanda E. a. selayarensis Tsukada, 1991 E. a. periya Fruhstorfer, 1913 darker ground-colour, the larger white spots on the forewing and broad, more intensely red bands on the hind wings; these characteristics are in both sexes even more evident on the under surface.E. a. irauana Jumalon, 1975