Mimathyma chevana, the sergeant emperor, is an Indomalayan butterfly of the family Nymphalidae. The species was first described by Frederic Moore in 1865.
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| Mimathyma chevana in Butterflies from China, Japan, and Corea (figure 6 as Apatura chevana | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Nymphalidae |
| Genus: | Mimathyma |
| Species: | M. chevana
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| Mimathyma chevana | |
There are two subspecies:
- M. c. chevana Sikkim, Assam, northern Myanmar
- M. c. leechii Moore, [1896] western and central China
Mimathyma chevana mimics Athyma opalina.
References
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- ^ Moore, Frederic (January 1865). "On the lepidopterous insects of Bengal". Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. 33 (1): 755–823, pl. 41–43. doi:10.1111/j.1469-7998.1865.tb02432.x.
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