Elymnias patna
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Nymphalidae
Genus: Elymnias
Species:
E. patna
Binomial name
Elymnias patna
(Westwood, 1851)[1]
Synonyms
  • Melanitis patna Westwood, 1851
  • Elymnias patna bercovitzi Joicey & Talbot, 1921
  • Melynias patnoides Moore, 1893
  • Elymnias hanitschi Martin, 1909
  • Elymnias (Melynias) dohrnii de Nicéville, 1895

Elymnias patna, the blue-striped palmfly, is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It was described by John Obadiah Westwood in 1851. It is found in the Indomalayan realm.[2]

Subspecies

  • Elymnias patna patna (north-western India to Assam, Burma, possibly Thailand)
  • Elymnias patna patnoides (Moore, 1893) (Burma)
  • Elymnias patna stictica Fruhstorfer, 1902 (northern Indochina)
  • Elymnias patna hanitchi Martin, 1909 (Peninsular Malaysia)
  • Elymnias patna dohrni de Nicéville, 1895 (northern Sumatra)

References

  1. ↑ Westwood, J.O. [1851]. In Doubleday, E. & Westwood, J. O. 1850–1852, The Genera of Diurnal Lepidoptera 2. pp. 251–534, pls. 31–80 + suppl. pl. London.
  2. ↑ Seitz, A., 1912-1927. Die Indo-Australien Tagfalter Grossschmetterlinge Erde 9
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