Amathusia schoenbergi

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

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

Description

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

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

[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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