Chitoria modesta

Life-forms

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Cladus: Unikonta
Cladus: Opisthokonta
Cladus: Holozoa
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Protostomia
Cladus: Ecdysozoa
Cladus: Panarthropoda
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Hexapoda
Classis: Insecta
Cladus: Dicondylia
Subclassis: Pterygota
Cladus: Metapterygota
Infraclassis: Neoptera
Cladus: Eumetabola
Cladus: Endopterygota
Superordo: Panorpida
Cladus: Amphiesmenoptera
Ordo: Lepidoptera
Subordo: Glossata
Cladus: Coelolepida
Cladus: Myoglossata
Cladus: Neolepidoptera
Infraordo: Heteroneura
Cladus: Eulepidoptera
Cladus: Ditrysia
Cladus: Apoditrysia
Cladus: Obtectomera
Superfamilia: Papilionoidea

Familia: Nymphalidae
Subfamilia: Apaturinae
Genus: Chitoria
Species: Chitoria modesta
Name

Chitoria modesta (Oberthür, 1906)
References

Lang, S.-Y. ; D.-Y. Xue & T.-W. Cao, 2009: A new species of Chitoria Moore, 1896 from Central China (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae). Atalanta 40 (3-4): 487–491.

Chitoria modesta is a butterfly found in the East Palearctic that belongs to the browns family. It is endemic to Southwest China (Yunnan)
Description from Seitz
For a key to the terms used, see Glossary of entomology terms.

A. modesta Oberth. is similar in shape to A. fasciola [Chitoria fasciola] (p. 164) and does not appear to be specifically distinct. Upperside brown, forewing with an indistinct darker shadowy median band, likewise with a somewhat darker shade in the apical and distal marginal areas. On the distal side of the shadowy band, near the costa, there is an elongate whitish double spot, above and below the middle of the anterior median branch two small more indistinct light spots, and near the apex a small rounded white spot with a white dot below it. Both wings have a small indistinct ocellus in the anal area. The hindwing bears a dark edge to the outer margin and a feebly marked submarginal row of spots. Beneath paler, the basal half of both wings somewhat darkened, these spots with sharply defined S-shaped edges, otherwise the light spots as above, the ocelli with blue centre, at the distal margin of both wings a narrow dark shadowy band and indistinct submarginal spots. — Western China: Siao-lou, Moupin, Tieatsuen. The author compares modesta with A. phaeacia Hew.; we cannot see any close affinity; but we learn from this remark by Oberthür that phaeacia, an Indian species, extends northward to Tse-kou (Tibet). It will be dealt with in the volume on the Exotics.[2]
References

Oberthür, 1906 Description d'une nouvelle espèce d'Apatura Étud. Lépid. Comp. 2 : 19-20, pl. 7
Seitz, A. ed. Band 1: Abt. 1, Die Großschmetterlinge des palaearktischen Faunengebietes, Die palaearktischen Tagfalter, 1909, 379 Seiten, mit 89 kolorierten Tafeln (3470 Figuren) Public Domain This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.