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Taxila haquinus

Taxila haquinus

Classification

Class
Insecta
Family
Erebidae

Taxila haquinus, the harlequin or orange harlequin, is a butterfly from the family Riodinidae. It is found from India east to Palawan and south to Java. The male is blackish or velvety-brown above, occasionally in continental races with a white or bluish-violet subapical area, the apex with a red-brown tinge even in all the insular branches, female ground colour shading off from dull greyish-brown to a beautiful intense red-brown, either with a white or more rarely reddish-yellow oblique band of the forewings.

Distribution

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