''Mimathyma chevana'', the sergeant emperor, is an Indomalayan

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 ...

of the family Nymphalidae. The species was first 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 1865. There are two subspecies: *''M. c. chevana'' Sikkim, Assam, northern Myanmar *''M. c. leechii'' Moore, 896/small> western and central China ''Mimathyma chevana'' mimics ''

Athyma opalina ''Athyma opalina'', the Himalayan sergeant, is a species of large, tailess nymphalid butterfly found in tropical and subtropical evergreen forest regions in Asia (India, Nepal, Bangladesh and Bhutan), ussualy at a elevation of 1200 meters to 300 ...

''.

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chevana Butterflies described in 1865 {{Apaturinae-stub