Amathusia friderici friderici, Fruhstorfer, 1904

Kunte, Krushnamegh & Basu, Dipendra Nath, 2024, Two new taxa of brush-footed butterflies (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae) from the Western Ghats biodiversity hotspot, southern India, Zootaxa 5543 (3), pp. 343-367 : 345

4. Amathusia friderici friderici :

♂: BMNH (E) #141394, double-numbered with BMNH(E) #806351 (Holotype. Tenasserim , Myanmar. Fig. 3 ), BMNH (E) # 805388 ( northern Tenasserim Hills at Kawkareik, Myanmar. Fig. 4 ), NHMUK010244425 (Karen Hills, Tenasserim, Myanmar. 1920) , BMNH(E) #984600 and BMNH(E) #984608 (Selangor, Malaysia. 1961). ♀: BMNH (E) #805379 ( Karen Hills , Myanmar. Fig. 3–4 ). All specimens in NHMUK .

Figures

FIGURE 3. Comparison of Amathusia travancorica sp. nov. with other similar Amathusia (see Materials and Methods for specimen details). A millimetre scale is at the bottom. Photographs: Krushnamegh Kunte and Gaurav Agavekar.

FIGURE 4. Diagnostic characters of Amathusia travancorica sp. nov., marked on digitally enhanced images from which wing-wear has been removed to illustrate the distinctive phenotype of the species. The new species is compared with two species whose names have been applied to the Western Ghats populations in the past. Numbers point to distinctive characters: 1: forewing termen, 2: hindwing termen and tornus area, 3: yellow markings on forewing of male, 4: yellow markings on forewing of female (further details in the text). Images are not to scale. Photographs: Krushnamegh Kunte, Dipendra Nath Basu and Gaurav Agavekar.