Amathusia friderici, commonly known as bicolor-haired palmking, is a butterfly found in the Indomalayan realm It belongs to the Satyrinae, a subfamily of the brush-footed butterflies.
Description
Described as a variety of Amathusia phidippus from which it differs in the following minor respects. The upper hindwing has a concealed hair pencil (scent pencil-a dorsal glandular fold or oval shaped depression on the wing membrane covered by pencils of long hairs) in space 1b. The fringe in 1a is black-brown and just crosses vein 1a .The upper hairs of the abdominal hair pencil are dark grey-brown; the lower hairs are light yellowish buff. The female has a darker ground colour than Amathusia phidippus with rich clear pale orange subapical marks.Corbet, A.S. and Pendlebury, H.M., 1993 The Butterflies of the Malay Peninsula Malaysian Nature Society; 4th edition revised by J.N. Eliot Images at gbif including A. f. holmanhunti f. utana Corbet & Pendlebury, 1936
Subspecies Amathusia friderici friderici Burma - Tenasserim Amathusia friderici holmanhunti Corbet & Pendlebury, 1936 Peninsular Malaya A. utana Corbet & Pendlebury, 1936 Peninsular Malaya, Sumatra, Java
References
External links Amathusia friderici images at Consortium for the Barcode of Life (10)