Aemona amathusia
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Aemona amathusia (Hewitson, 1867)
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Aemona amathusia, the yellow dryad,[1] is a butterfly found in Asia that belongs to the Morphinae subfamily of the brush-footed butterflies family.
Distribution[]
In South Asia the yellow dryad ranges from Sikkim, Bhutan, Assam, Manipur onto northern Myanmar.[2] It also occurs in Vietnam and western China.[1]
A related species, the white dryad (Aemona lena Atkinson), is found in South-East Asia.
Status[]
In 1932, William Harry Evans wrote that it was rare in its Indian range.[2]
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- ^ a b "Aemona Hewitson, 1868" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
- ^ a b Evans, W.H. (1932). The Identification of Indian Butterflies (2nd ed.). Mumbai, India: Bombay Natural History Society. p. 131.
Categories:
- Amathusiini
- Butterflies of Asia
- Butterflies of Indochina
- Butterflies described in 1867
- Taxa named by William Chapman Hewitson
- Morphinae stubs