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Amathusia schoenbergi

Amathusia schoenbergi , the Scaling palmking, is a butterfly found in the Indomalayan realm 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) .

Subspecies

  • A. s. schoenbergi Sumatra, Peninsular Malaya
  • A. s. borneensis<small> Fruhstorfer, 1899 </small> Borneo

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