Elymnias Vasudeva
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''Elymnias vasudeva'', the Jezebel palmfly, 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. It was described by
Frederic Moore Frederic Moore FZS (13 May 1830 – 10 May 1907) was a British entomologist and illustrator. He produced six volumes of ''Lepidoptera Indica'' and a catalogue of the birds in the collection of the East India Company. It has been said that Mo ...
in 1857. It is found in the
Indomalayan realm The Indomalayan realm is one of the eight biogeographic realms. It extends across most of South and Southeast Asia and into the southern parts of East Asia. Also called the Oriental realm by biogeographers, Indomalaya spreads all over the Indi ...
. Seitz, A., 1912-1927. ''Die Indo-Australien Tagfalter Grossschmetterlinge Erde'' 9


Subspecies

*''E. v. vasudeva'' (Sikkim, Nepal) *''E. v. thycana'' Wallace, 1869 (India) *''E. v. deva'' (Moore, 1893) (Assam) *''E. v. burmensis'' (Moore, 1893) (Yunnan, Burma) *''E. v. oberthuri'' Fruhstorfer, 1902 (Thailand) *''E. v. sinensis'' Chou, Zhang & Xie, 2000 (Yunnan)


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"''Elymnias'' Hübner, 1818"
at Markku Savela's ''Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms'' Elymnias Butterflies described in 1857 Taxa named by Frederic Moore Butterflies of Asia {{Nymphalidae-stub