Amathusia binghami
Amathusia binghami is a butterfly found in Peninsular Malaya and Sumatra [2] It belongs to the Satyrinae, a subfamily of the brush-footed butterflies.
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Description
Described as a variety of Amathusia phidippus from which it differs in the following minor respects. The upper hindwing has a concealed hair pencil (scent pencil-a dorsal glandular fold or oval shaped depression on the wing membrane covered by pencils of long hairs) in space 1b and a large buff hair pencil in 1b. The underside median band is reddish.[3]
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References
- Fruhstorfer, H. 1904 Dt. ent. Z. Iris 17 (1): 154
- "Amathusia". www.nic.funet.fi.
- Corbet, A.S. and Pendlebury, H.M., 1993 The Butterflies of the Malay Peninsula Malaysian Nature Society; 4th edition revised by J.N. Eliot ISBN 978-9839681055
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