Biology:Amathusiini

Short description: Tribe of butterflies

Amathusiini
Amathuxidia amythaon
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Nymphalidae
Subfamily:	Morphinae
Tribe:	Amathusiini
Genera
15, see text
Synonyms
Amathusiinae Amathusiidae

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

• Pteron. In Japanese but the excellent images are accompanied by correct binomial names.
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Wikidata ☰ Q2181633 entry