Cethosia penthesilea, the orange lacewing, is a species of heliconiine butterfly found in Southeast Asia, as well as the Australia's Northern Territory.[1]
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Nymphalidae |
| Genus: | Cethosia |
| Species: | C. penthesilea
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| Binomial name | |
| Cethosia penthesilea (Cramer, [1777])
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Eugramma paksha | |
Larval food: Lacewing Vine (Adenia heterophylla).[2]
Subspecies edit
- C. p. methypsea (Butler, 1879) – plain lacewing
- C. p. paksha (Fruhstorfer, 1905) – orange lacewing
- C. p. penthesilea (Cramer, [1777])
References edit
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Wikispecies has information related to Cethosia.
- ^ Orange Lacewing, Ozanimals
- ^ Orange Lacewing Archived 2012-08-11 at the Wayback Machine, Butterfly House
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