''Cirrochroa emalea'', the Malay yeoman, is an

Indomalayan The Indomalayan realm is one of the eight biogeographic realms. It extends across most of South and Southeast Asia and into the southern parts of East Asia. Also called the Oriental realm by biogeographers, Indomalaya spreads all over the Indi ...

species of

heliconiine The Heliconiinae, commonly called heliconians or longwings, are a subfamily of the brush-footed butterflies (family Nymphalidae). They can be divided into 45–50 genera and were sometimes treated as a separate family Heliconiidae within the ...

butterfly Butterflies are insects in the macrolepidopteran clade Rhopalocera from the order Lepidoptera, which also includes moths. Adult butterflies have large, often brightly coloured wings, and conspicuous, fluttering flight. The group comprises ...

described by

Félix Édouard Guérin-Méneville Félix Édouard Guérin-Méneville, also known as F. E. Guerin, (12 October 1799, in Toulon – 26 January 1874, in Paris) was a French entomologist. Life and work Guérin-Méneville changed his surname from Guérin in 1836. He was the author ...

in 1843. Seitz, A., 1912-1927. ''Die Indo-Australien Tagfalter. Theclinae, Poritiinae, Hesperiidae. Grossschmetterlinge Erde'' 9: 799-1107, pls. 138-175

Subspecies

*''Cirrochroa emalea emalea'' (southern Thailand, Lankawi, Peninsular Malaysia) *''Cirrochroa emalea martini'' Fruhstorfer, 1906 (Sumatra) *''Cirrochroa emalea bajadeta'' Moore,

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/small> (Java) *''Cirrochroa emalea ravana'' Moore,

/small> (Borneo) *''Cirrochroa emalea lapaona'' Kheil, 1884 (Nias)

References

Vagrantini Butterflies described in 1843 {{Heliconiinae-stub