''Elymnias cumaea'' is a

butterfly 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 ...

. It was described by

Cajetan Felder Baron Cajetan von Felder (german: link=no, Cajetan Freiherr von Felder; 19 September 1814 – 30 November 1894) was an Austrian lawyer, entomologist and liberal politician. He served as mayor of Vienna from 1868 to 1878. Life and career Felder ...

and

Rudolf Felder Rudolf Felder (2 May 1842 in Vienna – 29 March 1871 in Vienna) was an Austrian jurist and entomologist. He was mainly interested in Lepidoptera, amassing, with his father, Cajetan Felder, a huge collection. Works *with Cajetan Felder, Lepidopte ...

in 1867. It is

endemic Endemism is the state of a species being found in a single defined geographic location, such as an island, state, nation, country or other defined zone; organisms that are indigenous to a place are not endemic to it if they are also found elsew ...

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 ...

in the

Australasian realm The Australasian realm is a biogeographic realm that is coincident with, but not (by some definitions) the same as, the geographical region of Australasia. The realm includes Australia, the island of New Guinea (comprising Papua New Guinea and ...

. Seitz, A., 1912-1927. ''Die Indo-Australien Tagfalter Grossschmetterlinge Erde'' 9

Subspecies

*''E. c. cumaea'' (North Sulawesi: Minahassa) *''E. c. toliana '' Fruhstorfer, 1899 (North Sulawesi: Toli Toli) *''E. c. bornemanni'' Ribbe, 1889 (Banggai Island) *''E. c. phrikonis'' Fruhstorfer, 1899 (Sula Mangoli) *''E. c. relicina'' Fruhstorfer, 1907 (Sula Besi) *''E. c. resplendens'' Martin, 1929 (Sulawesi)

References

External links

"''Elymnias'' Hübner, 1818"
at Markku Savela's ''Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms'' Elymnias Butterflies described in 1867 Butterflies of Indonesia Taxa named by Baron Cajetan von Felder Taxa named by Rudolf Felder {{Nymphalidae-stub