Lovely Cupha Prosope butterfly
Cupha is a butterfly genus of the family Nymphalidae found in the Indomalayan and the Australasian realms. The wings of the adult butterflies are orange with a wide brown area by the body and a wide darker brown area along the margins, and with some pale spots by the tip each forewing. The wing undersides have a similar paler pattern, and additionally each wing has a subterminal arc of circled dark spots. The last spot at the tornus of each forewing is larger than the rest.
The pupa is greenish mottled with silver, and has a number of curly spines. It hangs obliquely from a silk cremaster head downward on the foodplant. 6448
Lovely Cupha Prosope butterfly
Cupha is a butterfly genus of the family Nymphalidae found in the Indomalayan and the Australasian realms. The wings of the adult butterflies are orange with a wide brown area by the body and a wide darker brown area along the margins, and with some pale spots by the tip each forewing. The wing undersides have a similar paler pattern, and additionally each wing has a subterminal arc of circled dark spots. The last spot at the tornus of each forewing is larger than the rest.
The pupa is greenish mottled with silver, and has a number of curly spines. It hangs obliquely from a silk cremaster head downward on the foodplant. 6448