Euphaedra cyparissa aurata Carpenter 1895

Male (Figs 2C, 2D): Head, thorax and abdomen: identical to other subspecies. FW length 29–41 mm, mean: 36 mm, n=42 (one exceptionally small specimen, 25 mm, was examined). FWD: with an elongated apical part, and gently convex outer margin; most of wing surface black; costa from base to apex dusted with dark blue; a yellow green area from wing base to two-thirds of anal margin, slightly entering discal cell and base of cell Cu1-Cu2; a large, roughly rectangular rich yellow subapical patch dusted along the edges with yellow green scales, with sharply defined zigzagging basal limit and somewhat diffused outer limit; fringes grey. HWD oval with a gently scalloped outer margin; predominantly steely bluish with some green yellow scaling in discal cell and in cells M1-M2 and M2-M3, with a blackish marginal area with a strong dark blue flush, gradually narrowing from roughly 4–5 mm at apex to 1 mm at tornus, leaving a dark blue submarginal dot in cell Cu1-Cu2; fringes grey. FWV mostly green yellow except for a large rich yellow subapical patch with some greenish overcast in apical part, a series of black spots, at wing base, mid cell, cell end, the latter two elongated, a half-moon one in mid cell Cu1-Cu2; two black elongated patches and four spots, two enclosing basally and distally a mostly rich yellow patch suffused with green yellow in its apical part, and two large, roughly square tornal patches in Cu1-Cu2 and Cu2-1/2A; HWV mostly rich yellow with an elongated basal pinkish patch extending from costal margin to Rs to one-third costa, edged with black; two black discal spots, and a series of smaller patches forming a gradually shrinking row from mod costa to discal cell end, a row of eight large, mostly rectangular black submarginal patches; marginal area steely blue. Male genitalia (Fig. 9E): Not differing noticeably from the nominotypical except for a small, sharp apical tip on the valvae. Female (Figs 4C, 4D): FW length: 40–48 mm. Sexual dimorphism slight, recognized from the male by the larger size (FW length: 39–47mm, mean: 44mm, n=16). Female genitalia (Fig. 10E) Bursa copulatrix large, rounded; no signa; ductus bursae (0.16 mm) narrow, approximately the same width over the whole length, two-thirds the length of bursa; colliculum slat like with gently folded edges, strongly sclerotized, half the length of ductus bursae; ductus seminalis joins the colliculum at the entrance of ductus bursae; lamella postvaginalis small, slat-like; papillae anales three times as long (0.11 mm) as wide in lateral view, compressed in ventral view; apophyse posteriores as long as the width of papillae anales; von Siebold organ prominent (but smaller than in some species of the Euphaedra ceres group (Pyrcz et al. 2011).