''Aemona amathusia'', the yellow dryad,
["''Aemona'' Hewitson, 1868"](_blank)
at Markku Savela's ''Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms'' 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
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.
It also occurs in
Vietnam and western
China
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.
A related species, the white dryad (''
''
Atkinson), is found in
South-East Asia.
Status
In 1932,
William Harry Evans wrote that it was rare in its Indian range.
Cited references
Amathusiini
Butterflies of Asia
Butterflies of Indochina
Butterflies described in 1867
Taxa named by William Chapman Hewitson
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