Euploea alcathoe

No-brand crow
Male
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Nymphalidae
Genus: Euploea
Species:
E. alcathoe
Binomial name
Euploea alcathoe
(Godart, [1819])[1]
Synonyms
  • Danais alcathoe Godart, [1819]
  • Euploea enastri Fenner, 1991
  • Stictoploea aethiopina Grose-Smith, 1894
  • Euploea aethiops Butler, 1866
  • Euploea boreas Miskin, 1890
  • Euploea alecto barsine Fruhstorfer, 1904
  • Euploea barea Fruhstorfer, 1911
  • Euploea faesula Fruhstorfer, 1910
  • Euploea fidena Fruhstorfer, 1915
  • Euploea harrisii Moore, 1883
  • Euploea latreillei Kirsch, 1877
  • Euploea lygdania Fruhstorfer, 1910
  • Euploea melancholica Butler, 1866
  • Gamatoba melinda Grose-Smith, 1894
  • Euploea monaeses Fruhstorfer, 1910
  • Euploea nymphas Fruhstorfer, 1910
  • Euploea occulta Butler, 1877
  • Euploea pheres Fruhstorfer, 1910
  • Euploea reaumuri Oberthür, 1878
  • Euploea rotschildiana Hulstaert, 1923
  • Euploea tamis Fruhstorfer, 1910
  • Euploea eichhorni Staudinger, 1884
  • Euploea alecto Butler, 1866
  • Euploea pierretii C. & R. Felder, [1865]
  • Gamatoba monilifera Moore, 1883
  • Euploea misenus Miskin, 1890

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 butterflies keep to within 3 metres (9.8 ft) 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.[2]

The larvae feed on Nerium indicum, Nerium oleander, Mandevilla, Asclepias, Hoya australis, Marsdenia australis, Ficus platypoda, Gymnanthera oblonga and Ficus obliqua in Australia.[3] The larvae of the endangered Gove subspecies, Euploea alcathoe enastri, also feed on the vines of Parsonsia alboflavescens,[4] and Vincetoxicum polyanthum (syn. Tylophora benthamii).[2] 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.[2]

  1. ^ Euploea at funet.fi
  2. ^ a b c Braby, Michael F. (2004). Complete Field Guide to Butterflies of Australia. Collingwood, Victoria: CSIRO Publishing. pp. 194–95. ISBN 0-643-09027-4.
  3. ^ Kitching, Roger Laurence (1999). Biology of Australian butterflies. Collingwood, Victoria: CSIRO Publishing. p. 198. ISBN 0-643-05027-2.
  4. ^ Cite error: The named reference govecrow was invoked but never defined (see the help page).