Amathusia binghami

Amathusia binghami
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Nymphalidae
Genus:	Amathusia
Species:	A. binghami
Binomial name
Amathusia binghami Fruhstorfer, 1904 [1]

Amathusia binghami is a butterfly found in Peninsular Malaya and Sumatra ^[2] It belongs to the Satyrinae, a subfamily of the brush-footed butterflies.

Description

For a key to the terms used, see Glossary of entomology terms.

Described as a variety of Amathusia phidippus from which it differs in the following minor respects. The upper hindwing has a concealed hair pencil (scent pencil-a dorsal glandular fold or oval shaped depression on the wing membrane covered by pencils of long hairs) in space 1b and a large buff hair pencil in 1b. The underside median band is reddish. ^[3]

References

1. Fruhstorfer, H. 1904 Dtsch. Entomol. Z. Iris 17 (1): 154
2. "Amathusia". www.nic.funet.fi.
3. Corbet, A.S. and Pendlebury, H.M., 1993 The Butterflies of the Malay Peninsula Malaysian Nature Society; 4th edition revised by J.N. Eliot ISBN   978-9839681055