{{Short description|Species of butterfly}} {{Speciesbox | name = Blue begum | image = Prothoe_326.jpg | image_caption = | taxon = Prothoe franck | authority = (Godart, 1824) }}
'''''Prothoe franck''''', the '''blue begum''', is a butterfly species found in Assam in north-eastern India and throughout a large part of South-East Asia.<ref name="Savela">{{Cite web |title=Prothoe |url=http://www.nic.funet.fi/pub/sci/bio/life/insecta/lepidoptera/ditrysia/papilionoidea/nymphalidae/charaxinae/prothoe/ |access-date=2026-03-21 |website=www.nic.funet.fi}}</ref>
It belongs to the leafwings (Charaxinae) in the brush-footed butterflies family.<ref>Seitz, A. 1912–1927. ''Die Indo-Australien Tagfalter''. ''The Macrolepidoptera of the World'' '''9''': 1–766;[https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/56106278#page/731/mode/1up pdf] 767–1201,[https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/56105786#page/5/mode/1up pdf] pls 1–175.[https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/56108980#page/13/mode/1up pdf]{{PD-notice}}</ref>
==References==<!-- Journal of Tropical Ecology (2006) 22:25–33. doi:10.1017/S0266467405002750 --> {{Reflist}} * {{cite book |last=Evans |first1=W.H. |authorlink=William Harry Evans |title=The Identification of Indian Butterflies |edition=2nd |location=Mumbai, India |publisher=Bombay Natural History Society |year=1932 }}
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Category:Prothoe Category:Butterflies of Asia Category:Butterflies of Indochina Category:Butterflies described in 1824 Category:Taxa named by Jean-Baptiste Godart
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