Yellow dryad | |
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Scientific classification
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Family: | Nymphalidae |
Genus: | Aemona |
Species: | A. amathusia
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Binomial name | |
Aemona amathusia (
Hewitson, 1867)
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Aemona amathusia, the yellow dryad, [1] is a butterfly found in Asia that belongs to the Morphinae subfamily of the brush-footed butterflies family.
In South Asia the yellow dryad ranges from Sikkim, Bhutan, Assam, Manipur onto northern Myanmar. [2] It also occurs in Vietnam and western China. [1]
A related species, the white dryad ( Aemona lena Atkinson), is found in South-East Asia.
In 1932, William Harry Evans wrote that it was rare in its Indian range. [2]
Yellow dryad | |
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Scientific classification
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Family: | Nymphalidae |
Genus: | Aemona |
Species: | A. amathusia
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Binomial name | |
Aemona amathusia (
Hewitson, 1867)
|
Aemona amathusia, the yellow dryad, [1] is a butterfly found in Asia that belongs to the Morphinae subfamily of the brush-footed butterflies family.
In South Asia the yellow dryad ranges from Sikkim, Bhutan, Assam, Manipur onto northern Myanmar. [2] It also occurs in Vietnam and western China. [1]
A related species, the white dryad ( Aemona lena Atkinson), is found in South-East Asia.
In 1932, William Harry Evans wrote that it was rare in its Indian range. [2]