Amathusia binghami

Amathusia binghami
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Nymphalidae
Genus: Amathusia
Species:
A. binghami
Binomial name
Amathusia binghami

Amathusia binghami is a butterfly found in Peninsular Malaya and Sumatra[2] It belongs to the Satyrinae, a subfamily of the brush-footed butterflies.

Description

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Described as a variety of Amathusia phidippus from which it differs in the following minor respects. The upper hindwing has a concealed hair pencil (scent pencil-a dorsal glandular fold or oval shaped depression on the wing membrane covered by pencils of long hairs) in space 1b and a large buff hair pencil in 1b. The underside median band is reddish.[3]

References

  1. ^ Fruhstorfer, H. 1904 Dtsch. Entomol. Z. Iris 17 (1): 154
  2. ^ "Amathusia". www.nic.funet.fi.
  3. ^ Corbet, A.S. and Pendlebury, H.M., 1993 The Butterflies of the Malay Peninsula Malaysian Nature Society; 4th edition revised by J.N. Eliot ISBN 978-9839681055