Hypolimnas alimena

Hypolimnas alimena, the blue-banded eggfly, is a species of butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It is found in the Solomon Islands, Indonesia (Aru Islands, Irian Jaya, Kei Islands, Maluku), New Guinea and Australia (the coast of New South Wales, the Northern Territory and Queensland).

Hypolimnas alimena
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Nymphalidae
Genus:	Hypolimnas
Species:	H. alimena
Binomial name
Hypolimnas alimena (Linnaeus, 1758)
Subspecies
See text
Synonyms
Papilio alimena Linnaeus, 1758 Papilio alimena Linnaeus, 1764 Papilio porphyria Cramer, [1780] Papilio velleda Stoll, [1781] Hypolimnas alimena f. coelia Fruhstorfer Diadema polymena C. & R. Felder, [1867] Hypolimnas forbesii Butler, 1883 Diadema alimena var. salvini Kirsch, 1885 Hypolimnas eremita Butler, 1883 Hypolimnas lamina Fruhstorfer, 1903 Hypolimnas darwinensis Waterhouse & Lyell, 1914 Hypolimnas inexpectata var. kuramata Ribbe, 1898 Hypolimnas diphridas Fruhstorfer, 1912 Diadema fuliginensis Mathew, 1887

Wingspan: 80–90 mm. The ground colour of the wings is black with a row of white dots and a blue band.

The larvae feed on Pseuderanthemum variabile, Asystasia gangetica and Graptophyllum pictum.

Subspecies

• Hypolimnas alimena afra Fruhstorfer, 1903 (Trobriand Islands)
• Hypolimnas alimena alimena (Ambon, Serang, Saparua)
• Hypolimnas alimena bandana Fruhstorfer, 1912 (Banda Island)
• Hypolimnas alimena bateia Fruhstorfer, 1915 (Yule Island, Yela Island)
• Hypolimnas alimena curicta Fruhstorfer, 1912 (Noemfoor Island)
• Hypolimnas alimena darwinensis Waterhouse & Lyell, 1914 (Northern Territory)
• Hypolimnas alimena diffusa Howarth, 1962 (Bellona Island)
• Hypolimnas alimena eligia Fruhstorfer, 1912 (Bachan, Halmahera, Morotai, Ternate)
• Hypolimnas alimena eremita Butler, 1883 (West Irian to eastern New Guinea)
• Hypolimnas alimena forbesi Butler, 1883 (Timor to Tanimbar)
• Hypolimnas alimena fuliginescens (Mathew, 1887) (Ugi Island)
• Hypolimnas alimena heteromorpha Röber, 1891 (Kai Island)
• Hypolimnas alimena inexpectata Godman & Salvin, 1877 (Bismarck Archipelago)
• Hypolimnas alimena lamina Fruhstorfer, 1903 (Torres Strait Islands, Cape York to Gympi)
• Hypolimnas alimena libateia Howarth, 1962 (Rennell Island)
• Hypolimnas alimena libisonia Fruhstorfer, 1912 (Papua New Guinea)
• Hypolimnas alimena manusi Rothschild, 1915 (Admiralty Islands)
• Hypolimnas alimena obsolescens Fruhstorfer, 1903 (Fergusson Island)
• Hypolimnas alimena polymena (C. & R. Felder, [1867]) (Aru)
• Hypolimnas alimena remigia Fruhstorfer, 1912 (Obi)
• Hypolimnas alimena salomonis Ribbe, 1897 (Bougainville, Shortland Islands, New Georgia Group)
• Hypolimnas alimena saturnia Fruhstorfer, 1903 (Waigeu)
• Hypolimnas alimena senia Fruhstorfer, 1912 (Buru)
• Hypolimnas alimena ysabela Fruhstorfer, 1912 (Santa Isabel)