Elymnias
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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
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GENUS
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumArthropoda
- ClassInsecta
- OrderLepidoptera
- FamilyNymphalidae
Le genre Elymnias regroupe des papillons de la famille des Nymphalidae, de la sous-famille des Satyrinae. Sommaire 1 Dénomination 2 Liste des espèces 3 Notes et références 4 Annexes 4.1 Articles connexes 4.2 Liens externes Dénomination Le nom Elymnias a été donné par Jakob Hübner en 1818. Ils sont présents en Australasie et en Afrique. Tous, ailes repliées, ressemblent à des feuilles. Liste des espèces Elymnias agondas Elymnias caudata Elymnias caudata, sud de l'Inde Elymnias esaca Elymnias hypermnestra Elymnias pealii Elymnias agondas (Boisduval, 1832) Elymnias agondas agondas Elymnias agondas aruana Fruhstorfer, 1900 Elymnias agondas australiana Fruhstorfer, 1900 Elymnias agondas bioculatus Hewitson, 1851 Elymnias agondas dampierensis Rothschild, 1915 Elymnias agondas glaucopis Staudinger, 1894 Elymnias agondas goramensis Fruhstorfer, 1900 Elymnias agondas melagondas Fruhstorfer, 1900 Elymnias agondas melane Hewitson, 1858 Elymnias agondas melanippe Grose-Smith, 1894 Elymnias agondas melanthes Grose-Smith, 1897 Elymnias agondas melantho Wallace, 1869 Elymnias amoena Tsukada et Nishiyama, 1979 Elymnias bammakoo Westwood, 1851 Elymnias bammakoo bammakoo Elymnias bammakoo rattrayi S
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- Specimen records
- 73
- With media
- 6
- Family
- Nymphalidae
- Collections
- UMNH, YPM, CSIRO
- Recorded in
- Thailand, Sri Lanka, Papua New Guinea, India, Uganda, Indonesia, Central African Republic, Malaysia
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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])
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