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Crow Butterflies
Euploea
Euploea is a genus of milkweed butterflies. The species are generally dark in colouration, often quite blackish, for which reason they are commonly called crows. As usual for their subfamily, they are poisonous due to feeding on milkweeds and other toxic plants as caterpillars. The latter are aposematically colored to warn off predators from eating them, and the adult butterflies are often mimicked by unrelated species which are not or less poisonous.They are medium to large butterflies with a slender body and large, relatively narrow wings. The body is black with white spots.The typical butterfly wing colouring is dark blue, dark brown, or black often with white spots and ray-like stripes in the outer part.In some species the blue is or violet is shimmering metallic (structural as in Morpho and Arhopala)
Caterpillars, on the other hand, are brightly coloured.
60 branches of this genus, most-observed first
Common Crow
speciesEuploea core
Australian Common Crow
speciesEuploea corinna
Striped Blue Crow
speciesEuploea mulciber
Purple Crow Butterfly
speciesEuploea tulliolus
Blue-spotted Crow Butterfly
speciesEuploea midamus
Double-branded Crow Butterfly
speciesEuploea sylvester
Magpie Crow Butterfly
speciesEuploea radamanthus
Blue-banded King Crow Butterfly
speciesEuploea eunice
Brown King Crow Butterfly
speciesEuploea klugii
Large Crow Butterfly
speciesEuploea phaenareta
Long-branded Blue Crow Butterfly
speciesEuploea algea
Spotted Black Crow Butterfly
speciesEuploea crameri
Euploea lewinii
speciesEuploea lewinii
Small Brown Crow
speciesEuploea darchia
Striped Black Crow Butterfly
speciesEuploea eyndhovii
Malayan Crow Butterfly
speciesEuploea camaralzeman
Euploea eleusina
speciesEuploea eleusina
Hewitson's dwarf crow
speciesEuploea hewitsonii
Eichhorn's Crow
speciesEuploea eichhorni
Climena Crow
speciesEuploea climena
Malayan Crow
speciesEuploea redtenbacheri
Plain Blue Crow
speciesEuploea modesta
Westwood's king crow
speciesEuploea westwoodii
Pacific Crow Butterfly
speciesEuploea boisduvalii
Andaman crow
speciesEuploea andamanensis
Euploea wallacei
speciesEuploea wallacei
Fijian Crow Butterfly
speciesEuploea leucostictos
Sulawesi Pied Crow
speciesEuploea eupator
Greater Striped Black Crow
speciesEuploea doubledayi
No-brand Crow
speciesEuploea alcathoe
Magou Crow
speciesEuploea magou
Wide-brand Crow
speciesEuploea netscheri
Euploea configurata
speciesEuploea configurata
Euploea helcita
speciesEuploea helcita
Mascarene crow
speciesEuploea euphon
Euploea treitschkei
speciesEuploea treitschkei
Bates' crow
speciesEuploea batesii
Euploea latifasciata
speciesEuploea latifasciata
Tobler's crow
speciesEuploea tobleri
Euploea goudotii
speciesEuploea goudotii
Euploea stephensii
speciesEuploea stephensii
Swainson's crow
speciesEuploea swainson
Schaus's crow
speciesEuploea blossomae
Euploea nechos
speciesEuploea nechos
Euploea cordelia
speciesEuploea cordelia
Nicobar Crow
speciesEuploea scherzeri
Chantaburi Crow
speciesEuploea orontobates
Euploea asyllus
speciesEuploea asyllus
Javan crow
speciesEuploea gamelia
Euploea eurianassa
speciesEuploea eurianassa
Euploea tripunctata
speciesEuploea tripunctata
Euploea albicosta
speciesEuploea albicosta
Euploea caespes
speciesEuploea caespes
Euploea dentiplaga
speciesEuploea dentiplaga
Euploea doretta
speciesEuploea doretta
Euploea eboraci
speciesEuploea eboraci
Euploea lacon
speciesEuploea lacon
Euploea martinii
speciesEuploea martinii
Euploea mitra
speciesEuploea mitra
Euploea lapeyrousei
speciesEuploea lapeyrousei
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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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 88304.