Amathusia friderici, commonly known as bicolor-haired palmking, is a butterfly found in the Indomalayan realm[2] It belongs to the Satyrinae, a subfamily of the brush-footed butterflies.
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Nymphalidae |
| Genus: | Amathusia |
| Species: | A. friderici
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| Binomial name | |
| Amathusia friderici Fruhstorfer, 1904[1]
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Description
editDescribed 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. The fringe in 1a is black-brown and just crosses vein 1a .The upper hairs of the abdominal hair pencil are dark grey-brown; the lower hairs are light yellowish buff. The female has a darker ground colour than Amathusia phidippus with rich clear pale orange subapical marks.[3] Images at gbif including A. f. holmanhunti f. utana Corbet & Pendlebury, 1936
Subspecies
edit- Amathusia friderici friderici Burma - Tenasserim
- Amathusia friderici holmanhunti Corbet & Pendlebury, 1936 Peninsular Malaya
- A. utana Corbet & Pendlebury, 1936 Peninsular Malaya, Sumatra, Java
References
edit- ^ Fruhstorfer, H. 1904 Dtsch. Entomol. Z. Iris 17 (1): 153 pdf
- ^ "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