Elymnias dara

Elymnias dara
Elymnias dara daedalion
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Nymphalidae
Genus: Elymnias
Species:
E. dara
Binomial name
Elymnias dara
Synonyms
  • Elymnias albofasciata Staudinger, 1889
  • Elymnias albofasciata var. deminuta Staudinger, 1889
  • Dyctis daedalion de Nicéville, 1890

Elymnias dara is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It was described by William Burgess Pryer and William Lucas Distant in 1887. It is found in the Indomalayan realm.[2]

Subspecies

  • E. d. dara (Borneo)
  • E. d. albofasciata Staudinger, 1889 (Palawan)
  • E. d. deminuta Staudinger, 1889 (East Java, Bali)
  • E. d. bengena Fruhstorfer, 1907 (West Java)
  • E. d. darina Fruhstorfer, 1907 (Sumatra, Peninsular Malaysia)
  • E. d. daedalion (de Nicéville, 1890) (Burma: Tenasserim, Thailand)

References

  1. ^ Distant & Pryer, 1887 On the Rhopalocera of Northern Borneo. Part I & II Annals and Magazine of Natural History (5) 19 (109): 41-56, (112): 264-275
  2. ^ Seitz, A., 1912-1927. Die Indo-Australien Tagfalter Grossschmetterlinge Erde 9
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