The medium-sized nymphalid butterfly known as the common baron, or just baron, is indigenous to southeast Asia, India, and Sri Lanka. It glides frequently and flies with stiff wing strokes. Not very far below the horizontal does the wing flap.

Systematic Position

• Domain : Eukaryota
• Kingdom : Animalia
• Phylum : Arthropoda
• Class :Insecta
• Order : Lepidoptera
• Family : Nymphalidae
• Genus : Euthalia
• Species : aconthea