Scada karschina

Short description: Species of butterfly

Scada karschina

Illustration by Dru Drury
Scientific classification
Kingdom:  | Animalia
Phylum:  | Arthropoda
Class:  | Insecta
Order:  | Lepidoptera
Family:  | Nymphalidae
Genus:  | Scada
Species:  |

S. karschina

Binomial name
Scada karschina

(Herbst, 1792)

Synonyms

* Papilio euritaea Drury, 1782 (preocc. Cramer)
* Papilio karschina Herbst, 1792
* Heliconia gazoria Godart, 1819
* Salacia phyllodoce Hübner, [1823]
* Ithomia yanina Hewitson, 1856

Scada karschina is a species of clearwing (ithomiine) butterflies in the family Nymphalidae, native to Brazil .[1]

## Description

Upperside. Antennae black. Head black, with small white spots. Neck orange. Thorax black, with grey marks. Abdomen black at top, and grey on the sides. Wings yellowish white, verged and tipped with black, without any marks or spots on them.

Underside. Palpi and breast grey. Legs black. Abdomen white. Anus yellowish. Wings coloured as on the upper side. Wingspan 2 inches (50 mm).[2]

## Subspecies

* Scada karschina karschina
* Scada karschina delicata Talbot, 1932

## References

1. ↑ Markku Savela. "Scada karschina (Herbst, 1792)". FUNET. http://www.nic.funet.fi/pub/sci/bio/life/insecta/lepidoptera/ditrysia/papilionoidea/nymphalidae/danainae/scada/#karschina. Retrieved 27 November 2014.
2. ↑ Drury, Dru (1837). Westwood, John. ed. Illustrations of Exotic Entomology. 3. p. 17. pl. XIII..

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