Yellow Coster, Acraea issoria, Nymphaidae
Laakuri bhanjyang, Suryabinayak Municipality, Bhaktapur
26 September 2020.
Acraea issoria, the yellow coster, is a small, leathery-winged butterfly. This species of the subgenus (Actinote) and the tawny coster (Acraea (acraea) terpsicore) with its sister species (A. (a.) moluccana) and (A. (a.) meyeri) of the nominotypical subgenus, is the only Asiatic representatives of the predominantly African subfamily Acraeinae.
According to George Talbot (Fauna of British India), the race anomala is found in the western Himalayas while the nominate form is from the eastern Himalayas.
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