Elymnias hypermnestra agina

I took these pictures in my garden flower. I always being curious about the caterpillar, what kind of butterfly they will be. So if I find caterpillars in my garden, I will be very excited and check it every day, just to find out their growth. Even though my plants will become victims. Their leaves will be eaten by them.

This is one of the caterpillars that completed their cycle in my garden. They eat the leaves and live on my ornamental palms i.e lipstick palm (Cyrtostachys renda) and bamboo palm (Rhapis excelsa).

Scientific Name	Elymnias hypermnestra
Common Name	Common Palmfly
ID iNaturalist	24984850
Location	Sumedang, West Java
Gear	Samsung J5 (2015)
Date	March 2019
Classification
Class	Insecta
Order	Lepidoptera
Family	Nymphalidae
Subfamily	Satyrinae
Species	Elymnias
Subspecies	hypermnestra
Description	Underside: Both female and male are brown with white marks like uneven pattern near the termen, the tornus and mostly the apex. There's also a white spot near the costa of the hindwing. Upperside: It is different between female and male. Female has orange colours, and the male has blue colours. I think it hard to take their upper surface pictures. Because I never see they open their wings when they perched. But in iNaturalist and Butterflies of India, I found some pictures, E. hypermnestra* perched and opened its wings. It's cool and beautiful. You better check it.

Glossary of Butterfly Morphology

(Butterfly of Singapore, 2018)

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