Elymnias
| Palmflies | |
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| Elymnias hypermenstra undularis | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Nymphalidae |
| Genus: | Elymnias Hübner, 1818[1] |
| Type species | |
| Elymnias jynx Hübner, 1818 | |
| Synonyms | |
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The Palmflies are a common Asian genus found from India to the Solomon Islands. The caterpillars mimic leaves which they feed on. The adults mimic certain species (ex:E. cumaea and Melanitis leda).
Species
Listed alphabetically.[2]
- 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])
Formerly in Elymnias:
- Elymniopsis bammakoo Westwood, 1851 – African Palmfly
Mimicry
Several species are mimics:
- Taenaris catops — E. agondas
- Euploea mulciber — E. kuenstleri
- Danaus chrysippus — E. hypermnestra
- Idea leuconoe — E. kuenstleri
- Delias pasithoe — E. esaca
- Parantica melaneus — E. ceryx
References
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- ↑ Elymnias at funet.fi
- ↑ http://www.nic.funet.fi/pub/sci/bio/life/insecta/lepidoptera/ditrysia/papilionoidea/nymphalidae/satyrinae/elymnias/ Elymnias], funet.fi