''Lebadea martha'', the knight, is a species of
nymphalid
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 ...
butterfly found in tropical and subtropical Asia.
Subspecies
Listed alphabetically.
["''Lebadea'' Felder, 1861"]
at Markku Savela's ''Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms''
*''L. m. attenuata''
Moore, 1878 (
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 ...
)
*''L. m. distincta''
Corbet, 1942 (
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* Mentawai Islands
* Mentawai Strait
* Mentawai people
* Mentawai language
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Dialects
Acco ...
)
*''L. m. ismene''
(Doubleday, 848
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Events
By place Europe
* Summer – Bordeaux, capital of Aquitaine, falls into the hand ...
*''L. m. malayana''
Fruhstorfer, 1902 – knight
*''L. m. martha''
Cambodia
Cambodia (; also Kampuchea ; km, កម្ពុជា, UNGEGN: ), officially the Kingdom of Cambodia, is a country located in the southern portion of the Indochinese Peninsula in Southeast Asia, spanning an area of , bordered by Thailand t ...
*''L. m. moorei''
Hall, 1930
*''L. m. natuna''
Fruhstorfer, 1902 (
Natuna Islands
''(Sacred Ocean, Fortune Land)
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)
*''L. m. nebula''
Chou, Zhang & Xie, 2000
*''L. m. paduka''
(Moore, 1857) (northern
Borneo
Borneo (; id, Kalimantan) is the third-largest island in the world and the largest in Asia. At the geographic centre of Maritime Southeast Asia, in relation to major Indonesian islands, it is located north of Java, west of Sulawesi, and eas ...
)
*''L. m. parkeri''
Eliot, 1978 (
Singapore
Singapore (), officially the Republic of Singapore, is a sovereign island country and city-state in maritime Southeast Asia. It lies about one degree of latitude () north of the equator, off the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula, borde ...
)
*''L. m. sumatrensis''
Staudinger, 1886 (
Sumatra
Sumatra is one of the Sunda Islands of western Indonesia. It is the largest island that is fully within Indonesian territory, as well as the sixth-largest island in the world at 473,481 km2 (182,812 mi.2), not including adjacent i ...
)
*''L. m. wallacei''
Moore, 1898 (south-western Sumatra)
Gallery
File:The Knight (Lebadea martha), BSRC, Cambodia.jpg
File:The Knight (Lebadea martha) (16444790648).jpg
File:Open wing position of Lebadea martha, Fabricius, 1787 – Knight WLB.jpg
References
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Limenitidinae
Butterflies of Asia
Butterflies of Singapore
Butterflies described in 1787
Taxa named by Johan Christian Fabricius
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