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 (Westwood, ) Uttarakhand to Assam, Myanmar – orange Punch Dodona elvira Staudinger, 1896 northern Borneo Dodona adonira Hewitson, 1866 Nepal, Sikkim, north-eastern India (hills), northern Myanmar – striped Punch Dodona dipoea Hewitson, 1866 Tibet, Himalayas (west as far as Murree), north-eastern India (hills), Myanmar, western China – lesser Punch Dodona dracon de Nicéville, 1897 northern Myanmar Dodona kaolinkon Yoshino, 1999 western Yunnan Dodona katerina Monastyrskii & Devyatkin, 2000 Dodona eugenes Bates, Tibet, Himalayas (west as far as Murree), north-eastern India (hills), Myanmar, western China – tailed Punch Dodona maculosa Leech, 1890 western and central China Dodona robinsoni Rothschild, 1920 Sumatra (Mount Kerinci) Dodona durga (Kollar, ) Tibet, Chitral - Nepal, western and central China – common Punch Dodona ouida Hewitson, 1866 western China, Himalayas (west as far as Mussoorie), north-eastern India (hills), Myanmar Dodona vanleeuwenii Roepke, 1921 Java Dodona chrysapha Fruhstorfer, 1910 western Java (Mount Gede) Dodona deodata Hewitson, 1876 Assam - Myanmar Dodona henrici Holland, 1887 Hainan – white Punch Dodona aponata Semper, 1889 Philippines, Java, north-eastern Sumatra, northern Borneo Dodona speciosa Monastyrskii & Devyatkin, 2000
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