| Elymnias vitellia | |
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| From Pieter Cramer's De Uitlandsche Kapellen | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Nymphalidae |
| Genus: | Elymnias |
| Species: | E. vitellia |
| Binomial name | |
| Elymnias vitellia | |
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Elymnias vitellia is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It was described by Caspar Stoll in 1781. It is found in the Indomalayan realm. [2]
Pieter Cramer was a wealthy Dutch merchant in linen and Spanish wool, remembered as an entomologist. Cramer was the director of the Zealand Society, a scientific society located in Flushing, and a member of Concordia et Libertate, based in Amsterdam. This literary and patriotic society, where Cramer gave lectures on minerals, commissioned and/or financed the publishing of his book De uitlandsche Kapellen, on foreign (exotic) butterflies, occurring in three parts of the world Asia, Africa and America.
Caspar Stoll was a naturalist and entomologist, best known for the completion of De Uitlandsche Kapellen, a work on butterflies begun by Pieter Cramer. He also published several works of his own on other insect groups. Stoll's 1787 publication on stick insects, mantises, and their relatives is also well known. It was translated into French in 1813.
Gerrit Wartenaar was an 18th-century painter from the Northern Netherlands. Gerrit Wartenaar was the son of the mapmaker Lambertus Wartenaar. In 1772, Gerrit married Maria Spekman, a woman fifteen years his elder who lived in his neighborhood, which was known as the Jordaan.
Eumelea rosalia is a species of moth of the family Geometridae described by Caspar Stoll in 1781. It is found from the Indo-Australian tropics of India, Sri Lanka, Myanmar, east to northern Australia and New Caledonia.
Charaxes xiphares, the forest king emperor or forest king charaxes, is a butterfly of the family Nymphalidae. It is native to Afromontane forest in the eastern and southern Afrotropical realm.
Acosmeryx anceus is a moth of the family Sphingidae. It was described by Caspar Stoll in 1781, and it is known from India, New Guinea, and Queensland, Australia.
The palmflies are a common Asian butterfly genus found from India to the Solomon Islands. The caterpillars mimic leaves which they feed on. The adults mimic certain species.
Alpenus maculosus is a species of moth of the family Erebidae. It was described by Caspar Stoll in 1781. It is found along the Gold Coast and in Lagos, Sierra Leone, Guinea, Angola, Cameroon, Nigeria, the Republic of the Congo, Uganda, eastern Africa and Zimbabwe.
Amerila vidua is a moth of the subfamily Arctiinae. It was described by Pieter Cramer in 1780. It is found in Cameroon, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Ethiopia, Ghana, Guinea, Ivory Coast, Kenya, Mauritius, Nigeria, Sierra Leone and Tanzania.
Euagra coelestina is a moth of the subfamily Arctiinae. It was described by Caspar Stoll in 1781. It is found in Suriname and the Brazilian state of Pará.
Poliopastea eacus is a moth of the subfamily Arctiinae. It was described by Caspar Stoll in 1781. It is found in Suriname and Pará, Brazil.
Parathyris cedonulli is a moth of the family Erebidae first described by Caspar Stoll in 1781. It is found in French Guiana, Suriname, Brazil, Venezuela, Ecuador, Bolivia, Honduras and Belize.
Ephoria ephora is a moth in the family Apatelodidae. It was described by Caspar Stoll in 1781, from a specimen from Suriname.
Elymnias nesaea, the tiger palmfly, is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae.
Lypotigris reginalis is a moth in the family Crambidae. It was described by Caspar Stoll in 1781. It is found in Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, Central America, the West Indies and Florida.
Delias dorimene is a butterfly in the family Pieridae. It was described by Caspar Stoll in 1782. It is found in the Australasian realm.
Euploea climena is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It was described by Caspar Stoll in 1782. It is found in the Indomalayan realm and the Australasian realm.
Elymnias penanga, the pointed palmfly, is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It was described by John Obadiah Westwood in 1851. It is found in the Indomalayan realm.
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