Amathusia is a
genus of large forest
butterflies
Butterflies are insects in the macrolepidopteran clade Rhopalocera from the Order (biology), order Lepidoptera, which also includes moths. Adult butterflies have large, often brightly coloured wings, and conspicuous, fluttering flight. The ...
with "wingtails" in the family
Nymphalidae. They are known as the palmkings and the larvae feed on palms (
Arecaceae
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). ''Amathusia'' ranges from the
Andaman Islands
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to
Sulawesi
Sulawesi (), also known as Celebes (), is an island in Indonesia. One of the four Greater Sunda Islands, and the world's eleventh-largest island, it is situated east of Borneo, west of the Maluku Islands, and south of Mindanao and the Sulu Ar ...
.
Species
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Subgenus
In biology, a subgenus (plural: subgenera) is a taxonomic rank directly below genus.
In the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature, a subgeneric name can be used independently or included in a species name, in parentheses, placed between t ...
''Amathusia''
**''
Amathusia andamanensis''
Fruhstorfer, 1899
**''
Amathusia binghami''
Fruhstorfer, 1904
**''
Amathusia duponti''
Toxopeus, 1951
**''
Amathusia friderici''
Fruhstorfer, 1904
**''
Amathusia lieftincki''
Toxopeus, 1951
**''
Amathusia masina''
(Fruhstorfer, 1904)
**''
Amathusia ochraceofusca''
Honrath, 888/small>
**'' Amathusia ochrotaenia'' Toxopeus, 1951
**'' Amathusia patalena'' Westwood, 1848
**'' Amathusia perakana'' Honrath, 888/small>
**'' Amathusia phidippus'' (Linnaeus, 1763)
**'' Amathusia schoenbergi'' Honrath, 888/small>
**'' Amathusia taenia'' Fruhstorfer, 1899
*Subgenus ''Pseudamathusia'' Honrath, 1886
**'' Amathusia virgata'' Butler, 1870
References
External links
Images representing ''Amathusia''at EOL
Nymphalidae genera
Taxa named by Johan Christian Fabricius
Amathusiini
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