Melanocyma

Pallid faun
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Nymphalidae
Subfamily: Morphinae
Tribe: Amathusiini
Genus: Melanocyma
Westwood, 1858
Species: M. faunula
Binomial name
Melanocyma faunula
(Westwood, 1850)

Melanocyma is a monotypic butterfly genus in the Morphinae subfamily of the family Nymphalidae. Its one species Melanocyma faunula, the pallid faun, is restricted to Burma, Malaya, Thailand and Indochina in the Indomalayan realm.[1]

References

  1. "Melanocyma Westwood, 1858" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms


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