Lethe wui
| Lethe wui | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Clade: | Pancrustacea |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Nymphalidae |
| Genus: | Lethe |
| Species: | L. wui |
| Binomial name | |
| Lethe wui Huang, 1999 | |
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Lethe wui, the Tibetan silverfork, golden mystic or Huang's mystic, is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It is found in Metok in Tibet and Arunachal Pradesh in India. It was described by Hao Huang in 1999.[1][2]
This species was described from one male collected in Metok, southeastern Tibet. Since then, this species has been sighted in Kachin, Myanmar in 2011[3] and Mayodia Pass, India in 2025.[4]
References
[edit]- ↑ Lang, Song-Yun. "Notes on some little known Lethe Hübner, 1819 from Nujiang and Dulongjiang, NW Yunnan, China, with descriptions of a new subspecies" (PDF). Atalanta. 47 (1/2): 216–223.
- ↑ Huang, Hao; Wu, Chun-Sheng; Yuan, Feng. "Zophoessa ocellata (Poujade, 1885) and its allies in China with the description of two new species. A review of the genera Lethe, Zophoessa and Neope in China" (PDF). Neue Entomologische Nachrichten. 55: 145–158.
- ↑ Koiwaya, Satoshi; Shizuya, Hideo (2011). "Description of a new species of Zophoessa (Satyridae) from Northern Myanmar". Gekkan-Mushi. 480: 31–33.
- ↑ "Lethe wui Huang, 1999 - Golden Mystic | Butterfly". www.ifoundbutterflies.org. Retrieved 2026-04-19.