Amathusia schoenbergi

Amathusia schoenbergi , the scalling palmking, is a butterfly found in the Indomalayan realm [2] It belongs to the Satyrinae, a subfamily of the brush-footed butterflies.

Amathusia schoenbergi
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Arthropoda
Class:
Insecta
Order:
Lepidoptera
Family:
Nymphalidae
Genus:
Amathusia
Species:
A. schoenbergi
Binomial name
Amathusia schoenbergi
Honrath, [1888] [1]

Description
For a key to the terms used, see Glossary of entomology terms.

Deep indentations at veins 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6. Male upper hindwing has a hair pencil (scent pencil-a dorsal glandular fold or oval shaped depression on the wing membrane covered by pencils of long hairs) .[3]

Subspecies
  • A. s. schoenbergi Sumatra, Peninsular Malaya
  • A. s. borneensis Fruhstorfer, 1899 Borneo

References
  1. Honrath, E. [1888] Berl. ent. Z. 31 (2): 347, pl. 6, f. 1 pdf
  2. Funet
  3. 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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