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Royal Assyrian
Terinos terpander
Terinos terpander, the royal Assyrian, is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It was described by William Chapman Hewitson in 1862. It is found in the Indomalayan realm.
It is the smallest species of the genus; at the same time it displays on the forewings the least-developed scent-patches; they not only begin beyond the cell, but do not flow together anteriorly, being represented along the upper radial by an isolated streak of thinly scattered scales. The hindwings are either orange-coloured in the distal half, or spotted with white in the anal area or they may be uniform blue, according to the locality. The under surface is red-brown, differing from all the other known species in being
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 371598.