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| Idea hypermnestra linteata | |
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Nymphalidae |
| Genus: | Idea |
| Species: | I. hypermnestra |
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| Idea hypermnestra | |
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Idea hypermnestra is a large butterfly that belongs to the danaid group of the family Nymphalidae. It was described by John Obadiah Westwood in 1848. It is found in the Indomalayan realm. [2] It is found in Thailand and Malaysia.
Hypermnestra, in Greek mythology, was a Libyan princess and, as one of the 50 Danaids, the daughters of King Danaus, son of King Belus of Egypt. Her mother was Elephantis. She was the full sister to Gorgophone.
In Greek mythology, Amymone was a daughter of Danaus, king of Libya and Europe, a queen. As the "blameless" Danaid, her name identifies her as, perhaps, identical to Hypermnestra, the one Danaid who did not assassinate her Egyptian husband on their wedding night, as her 49 sisters did. The author of the Bibliotheca, however, mentions both Hypermnestra and Amymone in his list of names for the Danaids.
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Apsarasa radians is a moth of the family Noctuidae first described by John O. Westwood in 1848. It is found in the north-eastern parts of the Himalayas, south-eastern Asia, the Andamans, Peninsular Malaysia, Sumatra, Borneo, the Philippines and Sulawesi. Apsarasa radians most frequently have been known to prefer lowland forest areas with an average rainfall intensity between 1000m and 1200m.
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Lycorma imperialis is a planthopper indigenous to parts of China and Indo-Malaysia. L. imperialis was originally discovered in 1846 by Adam White and has one recognized non-nominate subspecies, L. i. punicea. L. imperialis has undergone a number of reclassifications since its discovery and is one of four species in the genus Lycorma. L. imperialis follows a hemimetabolous life cycle and will undergo a series of nymphal stages (instars) before maturing to an adult.
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