Amathusia friderici

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Amathusia friderici
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Nymphalidae
Genus: Amathusia
Species:
A. friderici
Binomial name
Amathusia friderici

Amathusia friderici, commonly known as bicolor-haired palmking, is a butterfly found in the Indomalayan realm [2] It belongs to the Satyrinae, a subfamily of the brush-footed butterflies.

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Description

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. The fringe in 1a is black-brown and just crosses vein 1a .The upper hairs of the abdominal hair pencil are dark grey-brown; the lower hairs are light yellowish buff. The female has a darker ground colour than Amathusia phidippus with rich clear pale orange subapical marks. [3] Images at gbif including A. f. holmanhunti f. utana Corbet & Pendlebury, 1936

Subspecies

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References

  1. Fruhstorfer, H. 1904 Dt. ent. Z. Iris 17 (1): 153 pdf
  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