Dodona, the Punches, are a genus of butterflies found in Asia. The genus was erected by William Chapman Hewitson in 1861.
Description
Forewing broad, short, triangular; costa very slightly arched; apex subacute; termen slightly convex; tornus angulate; dorsum straight; cell comparatively broad, about half the length of the wing; veins 6 and 7 from upper apex of cell, therefore upper discocellular obsolete, middle and lower subequal, concave; vein 3 from a little before lower apex of cell, 4 from apex, 8 and 9 out of 7, 10 from upper apex of cell, 11 free, 12 very short, terminating opposite origin of 11. Hindwing: costa arched; apex broadly rounded; termen below apex straight to vein 4, then slightly bent inwards and slightly concave to tornus; tornus produced and lobed, in some forms with a slender tail in addition; dorsum slightly arched, nearly straight; cell about half the length of the wing; discocellulars oblique; vein 3 from just before lower apex of cell, 4 from apex; costa at base angular. Antenna over half the length of the forewing; club short, male reduced and clothed with soft hairs; tarsus one jointed; Female has the foreleg covered in scales and functional.
Species
- Dodona egeon <small>(Westwood, [1851])</small> Uttarakhand to Assam, Myanmar â orange Punch
- Dodona elvira <small>Staudinger, 1896</small> northern Borneo
- Dodona adonira <small>Hewitson, 1866</small> Nepal, Sikkim, north-eastern India (hills), northern Myanmar â striped Punch
- Dodona dipoea <small>Hewitson, 1866</small> Tibet, Himalayas (west as far as Murree), north-eastern India (hills), Myanmar, western China â lesser Punch
- Dodona dracon <small>de Nicéville, 1897</small> northern Myanmar
- Dodona kaolinkon <small>Yoshino, 1999</small> western Yunnan
- Dodona katerina <small>Monastyrskii & Devyatkin, 2000</small>
- Dodona eugenes <small>Bates, [1868]</small> Tibet, Himalayas (west as far as Murree), north-eastern India (hills), Myanmar, western China â tailed Punch
- Dodona maculosa <small>Leech, 1890</small> western and central China
- Dodona robinsoni <small>Rothschild, 1920</small> Sumatra (Mount Kerinci)
- Dodona durga <small>(Kollar, [1844])</small> Tibet, Chitral - Nepal, western and central China â common Punch
- Dodona ouida <small>Hewitson, 1866</small> western China, Himalayas (west as far as Mussoorie), north-eastern India (hills), Myanmar
- Dodona vanleeuwenii <small>Roepke, 1921</small> Java
- Dodona chrysapha <small>Fruhstorfer, 1910</small> western Java (Mount Gede)
- Dodona deodata <small>Hewitson, 1876</small> Assam - Myanmar
- Dodona henrici <small>Holland, 1887</small> Hainan â white Punch
- Dodona aponata <small>Semper, 1889</small> Philippines, Java, north-eastern Sumatra, northern Borneo
- Dodona speciosa <small>Monastyrskii & Devyatkin, 2000</small>
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