''Mynes woodfordi'' 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 ...

found in and around the

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and Bougainville. It was described by

Frederick DuCane Godman Frederick DuCane Godman DCL FRS FLS FGS FRGS FES FZS MRI FRHS (15 January 1834 – 19 February 1919) was an English lepidopterist, entomologist and ornithologist. He was one of the twenty founding members of the British Ornithologists' Un ...

and

Osbert Salvin Osbert Salvin FRS (25 February 1835 – 1 June 1898) was an English naturalist, ornithologist, and herpetologist best known for co-authoring ''Biologia Centrali-Americana'' (1879–1915) with Frederick DuCane Godman. This was a 52 volume encyc ...

in 1888 and named after British naturalist

Charles Morris Woodford Charles Morris Woodford (30 October 1852 – 4 October 1927) was a British naturalist and government minister active in the Solomon Islands. He became the first Resident Commissioner of the Solomon Islands Protectorate, serving from 1896 (three ...

, later Resident Commissioner of the Solomon Islands. The subspecies ''M. w. shannoni'' is named after Ray Shannon, who collected the type specimen in

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on the Solomons during his military service in 1944.

Subspecies

* ''Mynes woodfordi woodfordi'' Godman & Salvin – Bougainville, Shortland, Treasury Is. * ''M. w. isabella'' Fruhstorfer – Santa Isabel * ''M. w. hercyna'' Godman & Salvin–

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* ''M. w. shannoni'' Tennent –

References

Nymphalini Lepidoptera of New Guinea Butterflies described in 1888 Taxa named by Frederick DuCane Godman Taxa named by Osbert Salvin {{Nymphalinae-stub