''Idea agamarschana'', the Andaman tree-nymph or Burma tree nymph, is a large

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 ...

that belongs to the danaid group of the family

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. It is found in

Burma Myanmar, ; UK pronunciations: US pronunciations incl. . Note: Wikipedia's IPA conventions require indicating /r/ even in British English although only some British English speakers pronounce r at the end of syllables. As John Wells explai ...

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and on the

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. The habitat consists of forest clearings and it is also found above the forest canopy.

Subspecies

*''Idea agamarschana agamarschana'' (southern Burma to Assam) *''Idea agamarschana hadeni'' (Wood-Mason & de Nicéville, 1880) (southern Burma to Bengal) *''Idea agamarschana arrakana'' Fruhstorfer, 1910 (Upper Burma to Bangladesh) – Burma tree nymph *''Idea agamarschana cadelli'' Wood-Mason & de Nicéville, 1880 (Andamans) - Andaman tree-nymph or Andaman tree nymph

References

Butterflies described in 1865 Idea (butterfly) Butterflies of Asia Taxa named by Cajetan von Felder Taxa named by Rudolf Felder {{Danainae-stub