Great orange tip

Appearance

The following descriptions are true for much of its range. There are subspecies that differ, such as "H. g. vossi" where the white is replaced by pure yellow.

Naming

"Hebomoia glaucippe" has the following 27 subspecies:
⤷  "H. g. glaucippe"
⤷  "H. g. anaxandra" Fruhstorfer
⤷  "H. g. anomala" Pendlebury, 1939
⤷  "H. g. aturia" Fruhstorfer, 1910
⤷  "H. g. aurantiaca" Fruhstorfer, 1907
⤷  "H. g. australis" Butler, 1898
⤷  "H. g. borneensis"
⤷  "H. g. celebensis"
⤷  "H. g. ceylonica" Fruhstorfer, 1907
⤷  "H. g. chewi" Morita, 2006
⤷  "H. g. cuyonicola" Fruhstorfer, 1907
⤷  "H. g. erinna" Fruhstorfer
⤷  "H. g. felderi"
⤷  "H. g. flavomarginata" Pagenstecher, 1896
⤷  "H. g. formosana" Fruhstorfer
⤷  "H. g. javanensis"
⤷  "H. g. liukiuensis" Fruhstorfer, 1898
⤷  "H. g. lombockiana" Butler, 1878
⤷  "H. g. palawensis" Fruhstorfer, 1907
⤷  "H. g. philippensis"
⤷  "H. g. reducta" Fruhstorfer, 1907
⤷  "H. g. roepstorffi" Wood-Mason, 1880
⤷  "H. g. sulaensis" Fruhstorfer, 1907
⤷  "H. g. sulphurea"
⤷  "H. g. sumatrana" Hagen, 1890
⤷  "H. g. theia" Nishimura, 1987
⤷  "H. g. timoriensis"
⤷  "H. g. vossi"

Distribution

This species is found in much of South and Southeast Asia, as well as in southern China and southern Japan.

Reproduction

The eggs are laid on the larval food plants "Crataeva religiosa", "Capparis moonii", "Capparis roxburghii", "Capparis cantoniensis" and "Capparis sepiaria"."Subcylindrical, tapering towards each end, numerously-covered with minute tubercles; green."
Subcylindrical; suddenly tapered at both ends; covered with transverse rows of pointed tubercles. Colour dark green, with a lateral bluish line bordered inferiorly with a series of minute red spots; legs green, the prothoracic legs bordered with black that widens on the middle one of the three.

Defense

In the wings of "Hebomoia glaucippe" is present glacontryphan-M, a peptide toxin belonging to the family contryphan that are active constituents of the poisonous venom produced by cone snail. In "H. glaucippe" this toxin should function as a defence against predators.