Amathusia ochraceofusca

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Amathusia ochraceofusca
A. o. gabriela
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Nymphalidae
Genus: Amathusia
Species:
A. ochraceofusca
Binomial name
Amathusia ochraceofusca
Honrath, [1888] [1]

Amathusia ochraceofusca , the pale-haired palmking, is a butterfly found in the Indomalayan realm[2] It belongs to the Satyrinae, a subfamily of the brush-footed butterflies.

Description[edit]

Deep indentations at veins 2, 3 and 4 but less so than Amathusia schoenbergi Male upper hindwing has a hair pencil (scent pencil-a dorsal glandular fold or oval-shaped depression on the wing membrane covered by pencils of long hairs) .[3]

Subspecies[edit]

  • A. o. ochraceofusca Sumatra, Peninsular Malaya
  • A. o. gabriela Fruhstorfer, 1905 Borneo

References[edit]

  1. ^ Honrath, E. [1888] Berl. ent. Z. 31 (2): 348 pdf
  2. ^ Funet
  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