Blue admiral

Naming

* ''K. c. canace''
⤷  ''K. c. battakana''
⤷  ''K. c. benguetana''
⤷  ''K. c. charonia''
⤷  ''K. c. charonides''
⤷  ''K. c. drilon''
⤷  ''K. c. haronica''
⤷  ''K. c. ishima''
⤷  ''K. c. javanica''
⤷  ''K. c. maniliana''
⤷  ''K. c. muscosa''
⤷  ''K. c. nojaponicum''
⤷  ''K. c. perakana''

Distribution

This very widespread species can be found as far north as southeastern Siberia, west to Japan and Korea, east to India and Taiwan and south to Sri Lanka, Burma and parts of Indonesia with a number of well marked geographic races.

Behavior

Larvae grow on various Smilacaceae species and Convallariaceae species and Liliaceae .

Reproduction

Subspecies ''K. c. canace'' "Segments alternately orange and white, with numerous black spots on the orange segments and black streaks on the white; seven white, branching, black-tipped spines on each orange segment."

Subspecies ''K. c. haronica'' "Light red; spotted with black, the segments divided by blackish and purple lines; anal segment slightly humped; segments armed with eight longitudinal rows of yellow branched spines; head and legs black. Feeds on Smilax."