Amathusia binghami
Amathusia binghami | |
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Family: | Nymphalidae |
Genus: | Amathusia |
Species: | A. binghami
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Binomial name | |
Amathusia binghami Fruhstorfer, 1904 [1]
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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[]
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[]
- ^ Fruhstorfer, H. 1904 Dt. ent. Z. Iris 17 (1): 154
- ^ "Amathusia". www.nic.funet.fi.
- ^ 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
Categories:
- Amathusia (butterfly)
- Butterflies described in 1904