Amathusia binghami explained

Amathusia binghami is a butterfly found in Peninsular Malaya and Sumatra[1] It belongs to the Satyrinae, a subfamily of the brush-footed butterflies.

Description

Described as a variety of Amathusia phidippus from which it differs in the following minor respects. The upper hindwing has a concealed hair pencil (scent pencil-a dorsal glandular fold or oval shaped depression on the wing membrane covered by pencils of long hairs) in space 1b and a large buff hair pencil in 1b. The underside median band is reddish.[2]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Amathusia. www.nic.funet.fi.
  2. Corbet, A.S. and Pendlebury, H.M., 1993 The Butterflies of the Malay Peninsula Malaysian Nature Society; 4th edition revised by J.N. Eliot