''Mynes eucosmetos'' is a medium-sized butterfly of 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 ...

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 ...

to the

Bismarck Archipelago The Bismarck Archipelago (, ) is a group of islands off the northeastern coast of New Guinea in the western Pacific Ocean and is part of the Islands Region of Papua New Guinea. Its area is about 50,000 square km. History The first inhabitants o ...

.D'Abrera, B., 1990. ''Butterflies of the Australian Region'', edn 3. 416 pp. Hill House, Melbourne.

Subspecies

*''M. e eucosmetos'' New Hanover *''M. e. cottonis'' Grose-Smith, 1894

New Britain New Britain ( tpi, Niu Briten) is the largest island in the Bismarck Archipelago, part of the Islands Region of Papua New Guinea. It is separated from New Guinea by a northwest corner of the Solomon Sea (or with an island hop of Umboi the Dam ...

References

Nymphalini Butterflies described in 1879 Taxa named by Frederick DuCane Godman Taxa named by Osbert Salvin {{Nymphalinae-stub