Amathusia schoenbergi explained

Amathusia schoenbergi , the Scaling palmking, is a butterfly found in the Indomalayan realm^[1] It belongs to the Satyrinae, a subfamily of the brush-footed butterflies.

Description

Deep indentations at veins 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6. Male upper hindwing has a hair pencil (scent pencil-a dorsal glandular fold or oval shaped depression on the wing membrane covered by pencils of long hairs) .^[2]

Subspecies

• A. s. schoenbergi Sumatra, Peninsular Malaya
• A. s. borneensis Fruhstorfer, 1899 Borneo

Notes and References

1. http://www.nic.funet.fi/pub/sci/bio/life/insecta/lepidoptera/ditrysia/papilionoidea/nymphalidae/morphinae/amathusia/ Funet
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