Mimathyma chevana

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Mimathyma chevana
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Mimathyma chevana in Butterflies from China, Japan, and Corea (figure 6 as Apatura chevana
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Nymphalidae
Genus: Mimathyma
Species:
M. chevana
Binomial name
Mimathyma chevana
(Moore, 1865) [1]

Mimathyma chevana, the sergeant emperor, is an Indomalayan butterfly of the family Nymphalidae. The species was first described by Frederic Moore in 1865.

There are two subspecies:

Mimathyma chevana mimics Athyma opalina .

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References

  1. Moore, Frederic (January 1865). "On the lepidopterous insects of Bengal". Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. 33 (1): 755–823, pl. 41–43. doi:10.1111/j.1469-7998.1865.tb02432.x.