c. 18, see text Cirrochroa, commonly called yeomen, is a genus of butterflies of the subfamily Heliconiinae in the family Nymphalidae found in southeast Asia.
The underside of the wings is usually light brownish at the root, darker in the outer half.Cirrochroa is very nearly allied to Cynthia; but one can immediately recognize them through the delicate antennae, which are only slightly thickened at the end, and which bear no distinctly defined club.
Further distinguishing characters are to be found in the strongly swollen palpi, the last joint of which is very finely pointed, the naked eyes and the simple precostal vein, which branches from behind the base of the subcostal, and which is slightly bent outwards.
The neuration of Cirrochroa does not differ essentially from that of Cynthia and on this account is sharply divided from Cupha, the only other Argynnis-Genus, which possesses clubless antennae.
[1] These butterflies prefer to live in forest edges up to 1000 meters above sea level.