Mimathyma

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Kingdom Animalia Class Insecta Family Nymphalidae Rank Genus		Phylum Arthropoda Order Lepidoptera Subfamily Apaturinae

Similar Mimathyma ambica, Chitoria, Rohana, Herona, Euripus

Mimathyma is a genus of butterflies in the family Nymphalidae found in eastern and southern Asia.

Mimathyma india runway week by iffd april 2016

Listed alphabetically:

Mimathyma ambica (Kollar, [1844]) – Indian purple emperor

Mimathyma chevana (Moore, [1865]) – sergeant emperor

Mimathyma nycteis (Ménétriès, 1859) (Amurland, Korea, northeast China)

Mimathyma schrenckii (Ménétriès, 1858) – Schrenck's emperor (Amurland, Korea, northeast China)

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