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Faunis canens (Common faun butterfly)

Synonyms: Faunis arcesilaus; Faunis leonteus

Wikipedia Abstract

The Indian Faun Faunis arcesilaus (Fabricius, 1787) is a butterfly found in South Asia that belongs to the Morphinae subfamily of the brush-footed butterfly family. This butterfly may be conspecific with Faunis canens.
View Wikipedia Record: Faunis canens

Infraspecies

Faunis canens arcesilas
Faunis canens baliensis
Faunis canens bankensis
Faunis canens borneensis
Faunis canens canens
Faunis canens cyme
Faunis canens niasanus
Faunis canens pallidior
Faunis canens samadhi
Faunis canens subpallida
Faunis canens sumatrensis
Faunis canens tenuitata

Prey / Diet

Caryota mitis (Burmese fishtail palm)[1]
Curculigo latifolia[2]
Cyrtostachys renda[1]
Peltophorum pterocarpum (peltophorum)[1]

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
♦ 2HOSTS - a Database of the World's Lepidopteran Hostplants Gaden S. Robinson, Phillip R. Ackery, Ian J. Kitching, George W. Beccaloni AND Luis M. Hernández
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Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0