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| genus = Stichophthalma<br />
| species = sparta<br />
| authority = [[Lionel de Niceville|de Nicéville]], 1889<br />
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'''''Stichophthalma sparta''''', the '''Manipur jungle queen''',<ref name="Savela">[http://ftp.funet.fi/pub/sci/bio/life/insecta/lepidoptera/ditrysia/papilionoidea/nymphalidae/morphinae/stichophthalma/ "''Stichophthalma'' C. & R. Felder, 1862"] at Markku Savela's ''Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms''</ref> is a [[butterfly]] found in [[South Asia]] that belongs to the [[Morphinae]] subfamily of the [[Nymphalidae|brush-footed butterflies]] family.<br />
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==Distribution==<br />
The Manipur jungle queen ranges from [[Assam]] ([[Abor Hills]]), [[Nagaland]], [[Manipur]] across [[Myanmar]] (Kindat and Katha in the north; Htawgaw and Sadon in the north-east of the country, and Gokteik in the northern Shan states) onto northern [[Yunnan]] in [[China]].<ref name="Savela"/><ref name="Evans">{{cite book |last1=Evans |first1=W.H. |authorlink=William Harry Evans |title=The Identification of Indian Butterflies |edition=2nd |location=Mumbai, India |publisher=[[Bombay Natural History Society]] |year=1932 |pages=132–133 }}</ref><br />
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==Status==<br />
Evans reports the butterfly as not rare in [[Sikkim]] and [[Assam]] and as very rare in the [[Naga Hills]].<ref name="Evans"/> Haribal reports the butterfly as rare in Sikkim.<ref name="Haribal">{{cite book |last=Haribal |first=Meena |title=The Butterflies of Sikkim Himalaya and Their Natural History |location=Gangtok, Sikkim, India |publisher=Sikkim Nature Conservation Foundation |year=1992 }}</ref><br />
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==Description==<br />
{{Entomology glossary hatnote}}<br />
Upperside of both males and females ochraceous yellow suffused with a darker, somewhat brownish shade of the same towards base of forewing and on hindwing. Forewing has a postdiscal transverse row of ''[[fleur-de-lys]]''-shaped spots, a subterminal series of broad black lunules, followed by a series of narrow crescentic marks of the ochraceous ground colour; apex and a terminal line black. Hindwing has a subterminal series of black lunules as on the forewing, giving out inwards a series of large, shafted, roundly lanceolate marks of the same colour, followed, as on the forewing, by narrow ochraceous crescentic marks and a terminal black line, the marks posteriorly rather diffuse and tending to run together. Underside ochraceous yellow, with the following transverse markings: subbasal, median, postdiscal, sub terminal and terminal dark brown sinuous lines; a discal row of dark ochraceous [[eyespot (mimicry)|ocelli]], six on forewing, five on hindwing: and, bordering the ocelli on the inner side, a variable diffuse dusky-black band, ending posteriorly on the hindwing in a black tornal spot. Antennae dark brown; head, thorax and abdomen ochraceous, abdomen paler beneath.<br />
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Female upperside is similar, the black markings broader and heavier. Underside also similar, but the ground colour a beautiful pale green with a silky lustre, the median transverse dark brown line outwardly bordered from costa of forewing to vein 1 of hindwing with greenish white; the dusky-black transversely discal band broader and more diffuse: forewing with seven ocelli; terminal margins broadly but lightly infuscated.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Bingham |first1=C.T. |authorlink=Charles Thomas Bingham |title=[[The Fauna of British India, Including Ceylon and Burma|The Fauna of British India, Including Ceylon and Burma Butterflies]] |volume=1 |edition=1st |publisher= [[Taylor & Francis|Taylor and Francis, Ltd.]] |location=London |year=1905 }} (under ''Stichophthalma howqua'')</ref><br />
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==See also==<br />
*[[List of butterflies of India]]<br />
*[[List of butterflies of India (Morphinae)]]<br />
*[[List of butterflies of India (Nymphalidae)]]<br />
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==Cited references==<br />
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==References==<br />
* {{cite book|last=Wynter-Blyth |first=Mark Alexander |authorlink=Mark Alexander Wynter-Blyth |title=Butterflies of the Indian Region |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=yEkgAQAAMAAJ |year=1957 |location=Bombay, India |publisher=[[Bombay Natural History Society]] |isbn=978-8170192329 }}<br />
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[[Category:Amathusiini]]<br />
[[Category:Butterflies of Asia]]<br />
[[Category:Lepidoptera of Myanmar]]<br />
[[Category:Environment of Manipur]]<br />
[[Category:Taxa named by Lionel de Nicéville]]<br />
[[Category:Butterflies described in 1889]]</div>TeresaBrousseau