Amathusia binghami
Species of butterfly
Amathusia binghami | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Family: | Nymphalidae |
Genus: | Amathusia |
Species: | A. binghami |
Binomial name | |
Amathusia binghami Fruhstorfer, 1904 [1] |
Amathusia binghami is a butterfly found in Peninsular Malaya and Sumatra[2] It belongs to the Satyrinae, a subfamily of the brush-footed butterflies.
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]