About Eudocima homaena (Hübner, 1823)
This moth species has a wingspan of approximately 80 millimeters. The palps have a long third joint that is spatulate at its tip. The forewings do not have produced apices, and have rounded outer margins and non-crenulate cilia. Males have a fulvous brown head and thorax, with the collar, metathoracic tufts, and tibia bearing an orange tinge, and the head and collar having a purple bloom. The abdomen is orange. The forewings are olive green, suffused with purplish red-brown and striated with rufous, with dark sub-basal, antemedial, and slightly curved postmedial lines present. Traces of several waved medial lines are visible, alongside an indistinct reniform stigma and dentate submarginal line. The hindwings are orange, with a large black lunule located beyond the lower angle of the cell, and a submarginal band with waved edges running from the costa to vein 2. The ventral side of the forewings has an orange postmedial band. Females have much darker forewings with deep purple and chocolate tones, featuring a broad verditer-green fascia below the cell that sends bars to the inner margin near the base and outer angle, and is conjoined to the green reniform spot. The larvae are purplish brown with numerous blue specks and a large yellow patch on the 3rd, 4th, and 5th somites. The 4th and 5th somites form ocelli with a yellow iris and an azure-blue, black-edged pupil. The 8th and 9th somites bear irregular yellow patches, and a dorsal tubercle is found on the 11th somite. The pupa is orange colored, roughened and burnished. The larvae feed on species of Achyranthes, Cocculus, Cyclea peltata, Menispermum, and Tiliacora.
