Agatasa
Appearance
Glorious begum | |
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Agatasa calydonia calydonia | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Family: | Nymphalidae |
Tribe: | Prothoini |
Genus: | Agatasa Moore, [1899] |
Species: | A. calydonia
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Binomial name | |
Agatasa calydonia (Hewitson, 1854)
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Agatasa is a butterfly genus in the brush-footed butterflies family (Nymphalidae). It is monotypic, containing only Agatasa calydonia, the glorious begum, which is found from southern Burma, through the Thai-Malay Peninsula, to Borneo, Sumatra and the Philippines.[1]
References
- ^ "Agatasa Moore, [1899]" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
Wikispecies has information related to Agatasa.
- Evans, W.H. (1932). The Identification of Indian Butterflies (2nd ed.). Mumbai, India: Bombay Natural History Society.