Euploea modesta, the plain blue crow, is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It was described by Arthur Gardiner Butler in 1866. It is found in the Indomalayan realm and the Australasian realm.[2]
Subspecies
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E. m. modesta (India to Thailand, Vietnam, Peninsular Malaysia, Indo-China)
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E. m. lugens Butler, 1876 (Papua, East New Guinea)
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E. m. cerberus (Butler, 1882) (East New Guinea - Bismarck Archipelago, Biak)
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E. m. buxtoni (Moore, 1883) (Sumatra)
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E. m. lorzae (Moore, 1883) (Borneo)
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E. m. deheeri (Doherty, 1891) (Sumbawa)
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E. m. kuehni Röber, 1891 (Flores)
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E. m. obscura Pagenstecher, 1894 (Bismarck Archipelago)
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E. m. suavissima Fruhstorfer, 1897 (Lombok)
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E. m. salinator Fruhstorfer, 1904 (Alor)
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E. m. lamos Fruhstorfer, 1904 (East Java)
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E. m. werneri Fruhstorfer, 1909 (Manam Island)
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E. m. misagenes Fruhstorfer, 1910 (Karkar Island)
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E. m. deriopes Fruhstorfer, 1911 (Hainan)
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E. m. insulicola Strand, 1914 (Admiralty Islands)
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E. m. incerta Joicey & Noakes, 1915 (Biak)
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E. m. tiomana Corbet, 1937 (Pulau Tioman)
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E. m. jennessi Carpenter, 1941 (Goodenough Island)
References
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^ Butler, 1866 A Monograph of the diurnal Lepidoptera belonging to the Genus Euploea, with Descriptions of many new Species, founded principally on the Specimens in the Collection of the British Museum Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1866 (2): 268-302, pl. 29-30
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^ Seitz, A., 1912-1927. Die Indo-Australien Tagfalter Grossschmetterlinge Erde 9
