Indian fritillary (Argynnis hyperbius)

Query: nymphalid butterfly

Result: 30^th of 37

Subject:	Indian fritillary (Argynnis hyperbius)
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Description
English: Plate VI.
1. ARGYNNIS NIPHE (= Argynnis hyperbius ♀).
2. ARGYNNIS TEPHNIA (? = Argynnis hyperbius ♂).
Date 1770 (plates). 1837 (text).
Source Illustrations of Exotic Entomology, Vol. I.
Author Plates: Dru Drury (1725–1803). Text: John Obadiah Westwood (1805–1893)
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Illustrations_of_Exotic_Entomology_I_06.jpg

Argynnis hyperbius, the Indian fritillary, is a butterfly of the nymphalid or brush-footed butterfly family. The Himalayas, in the outer ranges from Campbellpur in the Punjab to Sikhim; Oudh; Agra; Manbhum in Bengal; Assam, the Khasi Hills; Upper Burma; extending to China and Formosa; Sumatra; Java. Can also be found in southern Japan.

nymphalid butterfly
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