Agatasa

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]

Glorious begum
Agatasa calydonia calydonia
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Nymphalidae
Tribe: Prothoini
Genus: Agatasa
Moore, [1899]
Species:
A. calydonia
Binomial name
Agatasa calydonia
(Hewitson, 1854)

References

  1. "Agatasa Moore, [1899]" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
  • Evans, W.H. (1932). The Identification of Indian Butterflies (2nd ed.). Mumbai, India: Bombay Natural History Society.
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