Hypolimnas bolina

Varied Eggfly
Male
Female
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Nymphalidae
Genus: Hypolimnas
Species:
H. bolina
Binomial name
Hypolimnas bolina
Subspecies

Eight, see text

Synonyms
  • Papilio bolina Linnaeus, 1758
  • Hypolimnas parva Aurivillius, 1920
  • Nymphalis jacintha Drury, [1773]

Hypolimnas bolina, the great eggfly,[1][2] common eggfly,[2] varied eggfly, or in New Zealand the blue moon butterfly,[3] is a species of nymphalid butterfly found from Madagascar to Asia[1] and Australia.[2]

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  3. ^ Liza Gross (2006). "Conflict within the genome: evolving defenses to suppress the male killers". PLOS Biology. 4 (9): e308. doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.0040308. PMC 1551929. PMID 20076639.