Cethosia penthesilea, the orange lacewing, is a species of heliconiine butterfly found in Southeast Asia, as well as the Australia's Northern Territory.[1]

Larval food: Lacewing Vine (Adenia heterophylla).[2]

Subspecies

  • C. p. methypsea (Butler, 1879) – plain lacewing
  • C. p. paksha (Fruhstorfer, 1905) – orange lacewing
  • C. p. penthesilea (Cramer, [1777])

References

  1. ^ Orange Lacewing, Ozanimals
  2. ^ Orange Lacewing Archived 2012-08-11 at the Wayback Machine, Butterfly House


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