''Amathuxidia'', commonly known as the koh-i-noors, is a genus of

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 ...

in the family

Nymphalidae The Nymphalidae are the largest family of butterflies, with more than 6,000 species distributed throughout most of the world. Belonging to the superfamily Papilionoidea, they are usually medium-sized to large butterflies. Most species have a red ...

. They are large showy butterflies, brown with blue forewing bands and hindwing "tails". They range from

Indochina Mainland Southeast Asia, also known as the Indochinese Peninsula or Indochina, is the continental portion of Southeast Asia. It lies east of the Indian subcontinent and south of Mainland China and is bordered by the Indian Ocean to the west an ...

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 ...

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Amathuxidia amythaon ''Amathuxidia amythaon'', the koh-i-noor, is a butterfly found in Asia. It belongs to the Morphinae, a subfamily of the brush-footed butterflies. Distribution The koh-i-noor ranges from in India from Sikkim to Assam and onto Myanmar. The butter ...

'' (Doubleday, 1847) – koh-i-noor *'' Amathuxidia morishitai'' Chou & Gu, 1994 *'' Amathuxidia plateni'' (Staudinger,

887 __NOTOC__ Year 887 (Roman numerals, DCCCLXXXVII) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. Events By place Europe * November 17 – East Frankish magnates revolt against the ...

– Platen's kohinoor

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Images representing ''Amathuxidia''
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Images representing ''Amathuxidia''
at BOLD Morphinae Nymphalidae genera Taxa named by Otto Staudinger {{Nymphalidae-stub