Mimathyma chevana

Mimathyma chevana
Mimathyma chevana in Butterflies from China, Japan, and Corea (figure 6 as Apatura chevana
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Clade: Pancrustacea
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Nymphalidae
Genus: Mimathyma
Species:
M. chevana
Binomial name
Mimathyma chevana
(Moore, 1865)

Mimathyma chevana, the sergeant emperor, is an Indomalayan butterfly of the family Nymphalidae. The species was first described by Frederic Moore in 1865.

There are two subspecies:

Mimathyma chevana mimics Athyma opalina.

References

  1. ↑ Moore, Frederic (January 1865). "On the lepidopterous insects of Bengal". Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. 33 (1): 755–823, pl. 41–43. doi:10.1111/j.1469-7998.1865.tb02432.x.