Euploea alcathoe
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.
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 Vincetoxicum polyanthum.
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
- Euploea alcathoe enastri
- Euploea alcathoe alecto Butler, 1866
- Euploea alcathoe zodica Fruhstorfer, 1904
- Euploea alcathoe pierretii C. & R. Felder,
- Euploea alcathoe macgregori Kirby, 1889
- Euploea alcathoe diadema Moore, 1883
- Euploea alcathoe coffea Fruhstorfer, 1910
- Euploea alcathoe samaraina Carpenter, 1953
- ''Euploea alcathoe monilifera''