Lexias dirtea
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| Lexias dirtea | |
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| Lexias dirtea agosthena, male, Laos | |
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| Female | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Nymphalidae |
| Genus: | Lexias |
| Species: | L. dirtea |
| Binomial name | |
| Lexias dirtea Fabricius, 1793 | |
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Lexias dirtea, the archduke, is a species of butterfly of the family Nymphalidae.
Lexias dirtea has a wingspan of about 80–100 millimetres (3.1–3.9 in). In this species sexual dichromatism is extreme. In males the uppersides of the wings are mainly velvety black, with metallic blue green on the margins, while in the females the uppersides of the wings are mainly brownish, covered by several rows of yellowish-whitish spots.
Distribution
Habitat
It lives primarily in virgin swamp forests.
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