Aemona amathusia, the yellow dryad,[1] is a butterfly found in Asia that belongs to the Morphinae subfamily of the brush-footed butterflies family.
| Yellow dryad | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Nymphalidae |
| Genus: | Aemona |
| Species: | A. amathusia
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| Binomial name | |
| Aemona amathusia (Hewitson, 1867)
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Distribution edit
In South Asia the yellow dryad ranges from Sikkim, Bhutan, Assam, Manipur onto northern Myanmar.[2] It also occurs in Vietnam and western China.[1]
A related species, the white dryad (Aemona lena Atkinson), is found in South-East Asia.
Status edit
In 1932, William Harry Evans wrote that it was rare in its Indian range.[2]
Cited references edit
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- ^ a b "Aemona Hewitson, 1868" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
- ^ a b Evans, W.H. (1932). The Identification of Indian Butterflies (2nd ed.). Mumbai, India: Bombay Natural History Society. p. 131.
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