Biology:Aemona amathusia

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Short description: Species of butterfly

Yellow dryad
Close wing of Aemona amathusia (Hewitson, 1867) - Yellow Dryad.jpg
Scientific classification edit
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Nymphalidae
Genus: Aemona
Species:
A. amathusia
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.

Distribution

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.

Status

In 1932, William Harry Evans wrote that it was rare in its Indian range.[2]

Cited references

  1. 1.0 1.1 "Aemona Hewitson, 1868" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
  2. 2.0 2.1 Evans, W.H. (1932). The Identification of Indian Butterflies (2nd ed.). Mumbai, India: Bombay Natural History Society. p. 131. 

Wikidata ☰ Q4687751 entry