Kaniska canace, commonly called Blue Admiral, is the only species in the monotypic genus Kaniska and widespread in South Asia.
🗒 Synonyms
| synonym | Polygonia canace |
🗒 Common Names
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📚 Overview
SubSpecies Varieties Races
Kaniska canace canace Linnaeus, 1763 – Chinese Blue Admiral (Indian subspecies).
Kaniska canace viridis Evans, 1924 – Sahyadri Blue Admiral (Indian subspecies).
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📚 Nomenclature and Classification
📚 Natural History
Size
Size (Butterflies)
Medium
Wingspan: 60-65mm.
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Morphology
Wing Tail (Butterflies)
Tailless
In both males and females, the upperside is very dark blue-black, both wings crossed by a broad postdiscal blue band much curved before the apex on forewing and bearing a series of small black dots on the hindwing. Beyond apex of cell on forewing is a short broad blue bar. On both wings the terminal border is blue dusted with black scales and bearing a waved terminal black line. Underside: basal half very dark defined outwardly by a narrow highly waved black line, terminal half of wings paler. The whole underside beautifully mottled and densely covered with dark fine streaks. A small cream-coloured spot at apex of the cell in both wings and along the dorsum near tornal angle of forewing.
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📚 Habitat and Distribution
General Habitat
Evergreen forests
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📚 Occurrence
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📚 Demography and Conservation
Population Biology
Fairly common (Evans, W.H. 1927).
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| Status | UNDER_CREATION |
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Conservation Status
Not evaluated by the IUCN Redlist.
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📚 Uses and Management
📚 Information Listing
Encyclopedia of Life (EOL)
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Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF)
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National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI)
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References
- Bingham, C. T. (1905) Fauna of British India. Butterflies. Vol. 1.
- Antram, C. B. (1924) Butterflies of India, T hacker, Spink & Co, Calcutta.
- Kunte, K. and U. Kodandaramaiah. 2011. History of species pages on Butterflies of India website. In K. Kunte, S. Kalesh and U. Kodandaramaiah (eds.). Butterflies of India, v. 1.05. Indian Foundation for Butterflies. URL: http://ifoundbutterflies.org.
- Inayoshi Y. 2012. A Check List of Butterflies in Indo-China. URL: http://yutaka.it-n.jp/index.html.
- Kehimkar, I. (2008) The Book of Indian Butterflies. Bombay Natural History Society and Oxford University Press, Mumbai.
- Antram, C. B. (1924) Butterflies of India, T hacker, Spink & Co, Calcutta.
- Kunte, K. and U. Kodandaramaiah. 2011. History of species pages on Butterflies of India website. In K. Kunte, S. Kalesh and U. Kodandaramaiah (eds.). Butterflies of India, v. 1.05. Indian Foundation for Butterflies. URL: http://ifoundbutterflies.org.
- Inayoshi Y. 2012. A Check List of Butterflies in Indo-China. URL: http://yutaka.it-n.jp/index.html.
- Bingham, C. T. (1905) Fauna of British India. Butterflies. Vol. 1.
- Kehimkar, I. (2008) The Book of Indian Butterflies. Bombay Natural History Society and Oxford University Press, Mumbai.
Information Listing > References
- Bingham, C. T. (1905) Fauna of British India. Butterflies. Vol. 1.
- Antram, C. B. (1924) Butterflies of India, T hacker, Spink & Co, Calcutta.
- Kunte, K. and U. Kodandaramaiah. 2011. History of species pages on Butterflies of India website. In K. Kunte, S. Kalesh and U. Kodandaramaiah (eds.). Butterflies of India, v. 1.05. Indian Foundation for Butterflies. URL: http://ifoundbutterflies.org.
- Inayoshi Y. 2012. A Check List of Butterflies in Indo-China. URL: http://yutaka.it-n.jp/index.html.
- Kehimkar, I. (2008) The Book of Indian Butterflies. Bombay Natural History Society and Oxford University Press, Mumbai.
- Antram, C. B. (1924) Butterflies of India, T hacker, Spink & Co, Calcutta.
- Kunte, K. and U. Kodandaramaiah. 2011. History of species pages on Butterflies of India website. In K. Kunte, S. Kalesh and U. Kodandaramaiah (eds.). Butterflies of India, v. 1.05. Indian Foundation for Butterflies. URL: http://ifoundbutterflies.org.
- Inayoshi Y. 2012. A Check List of Butterflies in Indo-China. URL: http://yutaka.it-n.jp/index.html.
- Bingham, C. T. (1905) Fauna of British India. Butterflies. Vol. 1.
- Kehimkar, I. (2008) The Book of Indian Butterflies. Bombay Natural History Society and Oxford University Press, Mumbai.
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🐾 Taxonomy
| Root | Root |
| Kingdom | Animalia |
| Phylum | Arthropoda |
| Class | Insecta |
| Order | Lepidoptera |
| taxon:hierarchy.superfamily | Papilionoidea |
| Family | Nymphalidae |
| Genus | Kaniska |
| Species | Kaniska canace Linnaeus 1763 |
📊 Temporal Distribution
📷 Related Observations
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