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.
Amathusia schoenbergi | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Family: | Nymphalidae |
Genus: | Amathusia |
Species: | A. schoenbergi
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Binomial name | |
Amathusia schoenbergi |
Description
editDeep 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
edit- A. s. schoenbergi Sumatra, Peninsular Malaya
- A. s. borneensis Fruhstorfer, 1899 Borneo