Amathusiini
Appearance
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Zeuxidia aurelius | |
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Tribe: | Amathusiini
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Amathusiini is a tribe of the nymphalid butterfly subfamily Morphinae. They are large butterflies. They are sometimes treated as a distinct subfamily Amathusiinae or family Amathusiidae.
Genera and selected species
- Aemona
- Aemona amathusia – yellow dryad
- Aemona lena – white dryad
- Amathusia
- Amathusia andamanensis – Andaman palmking
- Amathusia phidippus – palmking
- Amathuxidia
- Amathuxidia amythaon – koh-i-noor
- Discophora
- Discophora deo – banded duffer
- Discophora lepida – southern duffer
- Discophora sondaica – common duffer
- Discophora timora – great duffer
- Enispe
- Enispe euthymius – red caliph
- Enispe cycnus – blue caliph
- Enispe intermedia
- Faunis
- Melanocyma
- Morphopsis
- Stichophthalma
- Stichophthalma camadeva – northern jungle queen
- Stichophthalma nourmahal – chocolate jungle queen
- Stichophthalma sparta – Manipur jungle queen
- Taenaris
- Thaumantis
- Thaumantis diores – jungle glory
- Thauria
- Thauria aliris – tufted jungleking
- Thauria lathyi – jungleking
- Xanthotaenia
- Zeuxidia
External links
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Amathusiini.
- Pteron. In Japanese but the excellent images are accompanied by correct binomial names.
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