Euploea

Euploea is a genus of milkweed butterflies. The species are generally dark in coloration, 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.

Species

Listed alphabetically.

• Euploea albicosta – Biak dark crow
• Euploea alcathoe – no-brand crow, striped black crow
• Euploea alcathoe enastri – Gove crow
• Euploea algea – long-branded blue crow, mournful crow, Algea crow
• Euploea andamanensis – Andaman crow
• Euploea asyllus
• Euploea batesii
• Euploea blossomae – Schaus's crow
• Euploea boisduvali
• Euploea caespes – Murphy's crow
• Euploea camaralzeman – Malayan crow
• Euploea climena
• Euploea configurata – Sulawesi striped blue crow
• Euploea cordelia – Cordelia crow
• Euploea core – common crow
• Euploea corinna – Australian common crow
• Euploea crameri – spotted black crow
• Euploea darchia – small brown crow
• Euploea dentiplaga – Seram crow
• Euploea desjardinsii
• Euploea doretta – Pagenstecher's crow
• Euploea doubledayi – striped black crow
• Euploea eboraci – Bismark crow
• Euploea eleusina – Vollenhov's crow
• Euploea eunice – blue-banded king crow
• Euploea eupator – Vanoort's crow
• Euploea euphon – Mascarene crow
• Euploea eurianassa
• Euploea eyndhovii
• Euploea gamelia – Javan crow
• Euploea goudotii
• Euploea hewitsonii – Hewitson's dwarf crow
• Euploea klugii – blue king crow
• Euploea lacon – Spartan crow
• Euploea latifasciata – Weymer's crow, broad-banded crow
• Euploea leucostictos – orange-flash crow
• Euploea lewinii
• Euploea magou – magou crow
• Euploea martinii – Sumatran crow
• Euploea midamus – blue spotted crow
• Euploea mitra – Seychelles crow
• Euploea modesta
• Euploea morosa
• Euploea mulciber – striped blue crow
• Euploea nechos
• Euploea netscheri
• Euploea orontobates

• Euploea phaenareta – great crow, large crow
• Euploea phaenareta juvia – Taiwan or juvia large crow, extinct (1960s)
• Euploea radamanthus – magpie crow
• Euploea redtenbacheri – Malayan crow, Redtenbacher's crow
• ?Euploea rogeri – Roger's monarch
• Euploea stephensii
• Euploea swainson – Swainson's crow
• Euploea sylvester – double-branded crow
• Euploea tobleri – Tobler's crow
• Euploea transfixa
• Euploea treitschkei
• Euploea tripunctata – Biak threespot crow
• Euploea tulliolus – eastern brown crow, dwarf crow
• Euploea usipetes
• Euploea wallacei
• Euploea westwoodii – Westwood's king crow

Nomenclature

This genus has a large number of junior synonyms, due in part to Moore committing what probably ranks as one of the most drastic cases of oversplitting in the history of zoology:

Crastia <small>Hübner, 1816</small><br/> Trepsichrois <small>Hübner, 1816</small><br/> Salpinx <small>Hübner, 1819</small><br/> Eudaemon <small>Billberg, 1820</small><br/> Terpsichrois <small>Hübner, 1821 (lapsus)</small><br/> Euplaea <small>Boisduval, 1832 (lapsus)</small><br/> Calliploea <small>Butler, 1875</small><br/> Macroploea <small>Butler, 1878</small><br/> Stictoploea <small>Butler, 1878</small><br/> Euplea <small>W.F. Kirby, 1879 (lapsus)</small><br/> Adigama <small>Moore, 1880</small><br/> Andasena <small>Moore, 1883</small><br/> Betanga <small>Moore, 1883</small><br/> Bibisana <small>Moore, 1883</small><br/> Chanapa <small>Moore, 1883</small><br/> Chirosa <small>Moore, 1883</small><br/> Danisepa <small>Moore, 1883</small><br/> Deragena <small>Moore, 1883</small><br/> Gamatoba <small>Moore, 1883</small><br/> Glinama <small>Moore, 1883</small><br/> Hirdapa <small>Moore, 1883</small><br/> Isamia <small>Moore, 1883</small><br/> Karadira <small>Moore, 1883</small><br/> Lontara <small>Moore, 1883</small><br/> Mahintha <small>Moore, 1883</small><br/> Menama <small>Moore, 1883</small><br/> Mestapra <small>Moore, 1883</small><br/> Nacamsa <small>Moore, 1883</small><br/> Narmada <small>Moore, 1880</small><br/> Nipara <small>Moore, 1883</small><br/> Oranasma <small>Moore, 1883</small><br/> Pademma <small>Moore, 1883</small><br/> Patosa <small>Moore, 1883</small><br/> Penoa <small>Moore, 1883</small><br/> Pramasa <small>Moore, 1883</small><br/> Pramesta <small>Moore, 1883</small><br/> Rasuma <small>Moore, 1883</small><br/> Sabanosa <small>Moore, 1883</small><br/> Saphara <small>Moore, 1883</small><br/> Sarobia <small>Moore, 1883</small><br/> Satanga <small>Moore, 1883</small><br/> Selinda <small>Moore, 1883</small><br/> Tabada <small>Moore, 1883</small><br/> Tagata <small>Moore, 1883</small><br/> Tiruna <small>Moore, 1883</small><br/> Tronga <small>Moore, 1883</small><br/> Vadebra <small>Moore, 1883</small><br/> Vonona <small>Moore, 1883</small><br/> Anadara <small>Moore, 1883 (non Gray, 1847: preoccupied)</small><br/> Doricha <small>Moore, 1883 (non Reichenbach, 1853: preoccupied)</small><br/> Karadina <small>Moore, 1891 (lapsus)</small><br/> Chirosia <small>Sharp, 1904 (lapsus)</small><br/> Daniseppa <small>Fruhstorfer, 1910 (lapsus)</small><br/> Pamasa <small>Fruhstorfer, 1910 (lapsus)</small><br/> Rausuma <small>Fruhstorfer, 1910 (lapsus)</small><br/> Ironga <small>Martin, 1914 (lapsus)</small><br/> Makroploea <small>Martin, 1915 (lapsus)</small><br/> Eupolea <small>Hulstaert, 1931 (lapsus)</small><br/> Ramasa <small>Hulstaert, 1931 (lapsus)</small>

References

External links

• Danaini classification
• Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms: Preliminary species list. Version of May 6, 2007. Retrieved May 20, 2007.