Elymnias

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). thumb|Elymnias caudata

==Species== Listed alphabetically. 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])