Chonala masoni, the Chumbi wall, is a species of satyrine butterfly found in Bhutan, China and north-eastern India.
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Family: | Nymphalidae |
Genus: | Chonala |
Species: | C. masoni
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Binomial name | |
Chonala masoni (Elwes, 1883)
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The species is named the Chumbi wall after the Chumbi Valley where it was "presumed" to have been collected by a native collector and passed on to Henry John Elwes in 1881 when he visited Sikkim with Frederick DuCane Godman. It was originally described as a species in the genus Debis.[1]
References
edit- ^ Elwes, HJ (1882). "On a Collection of Butterflies from Sikkim". Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London: 398–406.