The palmflies are a common Asian butterfly genus found from India to the Solomon Islands. The caterpillars mimic leaves which they feed on. The adults mimic certain species (for example: E. cumaea looks like Melanitis leda).
| Palmflies | |
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| Elymnias hypermenstra undularis | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Nymphalidae |
| Tribe: | Elymniini |
| Subtribe: | Elymniina |
| Genus: | Elymnias Hübner, 1818[1] |
| Type species | |
| Elymnias jynx Hübner, 1818
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| Synonyms | |
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Species
editListed alphabetically.[2]
- Elymnias agondas (Boisduval, 1832) – palmfly
- Elymnias amoena Tsukada & Nishiyama, 1979
- Elymnias beza (Hewitson, 1877)
- Elymnias brookei Shelford, 1904
- Elymnias casiphone Geyer, [1827]
- Elymnias casiphonides Semper, 1892
- Elymnias caudata Butler, 1871
- Elymnias ceryx (Boisduval, 1836)
- Elymnias congruens Semper, 1887
- Elymnias cottonis (Hewitson, 1874)
- Elymnias cumaea C. & R. Felder, [1867]
- Elymnias cybele (C. & R. Felder, 1860)
- Elymnias dara Distant & Pryer, 1887
- Elymnias detanii Aoki & Uémura, 1982
- Elymnias esaca (Westwood, 1851)
- Elymnias harterti Honrath, 1889
- Elymnias hewitsoni Wallace, 1869 – Hewitson's palmfly
- Elymnias hicetas Wallace, 1869
- Elymnias holofernes (Butler, 1882)
- Elymnias hypermnestra (Linnaeus, 1763) – common palmfly
- Elymnias kamara Moore, [1858]
- Elymnias kanekoi Tsukada & Nishiyama, 1980
- Elymnias kuenstleri Honrath, [1885]
- Elymnias lise (Hemming, 1960)
- Elymnias luteofasciata Okubo, 1980
- Elymnias malelas (Hewitson, 1863)
- Elymnias melias (C. & R. Felder, 1863)
- Elymnias mimalon (Hewitson, 1861)
- Elymnias nelsoni Corbet, 1942
- Elymnias nepheronides Fruhstorfer, 1907
- Elymnias nesaea (Linnaeus, 1764) – tiger palmfly
- Elymnias obnubila Marshall & de Nicéville, 1883
- Elymnias panthera (Fabricius, 1787) – tawny palmfly
- Elymnias papua Wallace, 1869
- Elymnias paradoxa Staudinger, 1894
- Elymnias patna (Westwood, 1851) – blue-striped palmfly
- Elymnias pealii Wood-Mason, 1883 – Peal's palmfly
- Elymnias pellucida Fruhstorfer, 1895
- Elymnias penanga (Westwood, 1851) – pointed palmfly
- Elymnias sangira Fruhstorfer, 1899
- Elymnias singhala Moore, [1875] – Ceylon palmfly
- Elymnias tamborana Okubo, 2010
- Elymnias vasudeva Moore, 1857 – Jezebel palmfly
- Elymnias vitellia (Stoll, [1781])
Formerly in Elymnias:
- Elymniopsis bammakoo Westwood, 1851 – African palmfly
Mimicry
editSeveral species are mimics:
- Taenaris catops – E. agondas
- Euploea mulciber – E. kuenstleri
- Danaus chrysippus – E. hypermnestra
- Idea leuconoe – E. kuenstleri
- Delias pasithoe – E. esaca
- Parantica melaneus – E. ceryx
See also
editReferences
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- ^ Hübner, 1818 Zuträge zur Sammlung exotischer Schmettlinge, Vol. 1 [1808-] 1818 Zuträge Samml. exot. Schmett. 1 : [1-3], 4-6, [7], 8-32, [33-40], : pl. [1-2], f. 1-12 (1808 - 1809), : pl. [3-25], f. 13-146 (1809 - 1813), : pl. [26-35], f. 147-200 (1814 - 1818)
- ^ "Elymnias Hübner, 1818" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms