Abrota ganga Moore, 1857 is a animal in the Nymphalidae family, order Lepidoptera, kingdom Animalia. Not known to be toxic.

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Abrota ganga Moore, 1857

Abrota ganga Moore, 1857

Abrota ganga (sergeant-major) is a butterfly species found across South and East Asia, with distinct seasonal and sexual form differences.

Family
Genus
Abrota
Order
Lepidoptera
Class
Insecta

About Abrota ganga Moore, 1857

This species, commonly called the sergeant-major, has a wingspan ranging from 70 to 90 mm. Males are tawny with dark bands; their upper hindwings have four bands. In the wet-season form of this species, the two central bands are well-separated, while in the dry-season form these two bands are nearly united. Females are dark brown with dusky tawny bands. The upper forewing of females has a streak in the cell, with a spot beyond the streak, and the upper hindwing of females has two tawny bands. This species can be found in Sikkim, Bhutan, Abor Hills, Naga Hills, Burma, Sichuan and Yunnan in western China, Taiwan, Guangdong, and Shanxi. In 1932, William Harry Evans described the species as not rare.

Photo: (c) Cheongweei Gan, some rights reserved (CC BY), uploaded by Cheongweei Gan · cc-by

Taxonomy

Animalia Arthropoda Insecta Lepidoptera Nymphalidae Abrota

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Sources: GBIF, iNaturalist, Wikipedia, NCBI Taxonomy · Disclaimer

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