Elymnias Agondas
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. The caterpillars mimic leaves which they feed on. The adults mimic certain species (for example: '' E. cumaea'' looks like '' Melanitis leda'').


Species

Listed alphabetically."''Elymnias'' Hübner, 1818"
at Markku Savela's ''Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms'' *'' Elymnias agondas'' (Boisduval, 1832) – palmfly *'' Elymnias amoena'' Tsukada & Nishiyama, 1979 *'' Elymnias beza'' (Hewitson, 1877) *'' Elymnias brookei'' Shelford, 1904 *'' Elymnias casiphone'' Geyer,
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/small> *'' Elymnias casiphonides'' Semper, 1892 *'' Elymnias caudata'' Butler, 1871 *'' Elymnias ceryx'' (Boisduval, 1836) *'' Elymnias congruens'' Semper, 1887 *'' Elymnias cottonis'' (Hewitson, 1874) *'' Elymnias cumaea'' C. & R. Felder, 867/small> *'' Elymnias cybele'' (C. & R. Felder, 1860) *'' Elymnias dara'' Distant & Pryer, 1887 *'' Elymnias detanii'' Aoki & Uémura, 1982 *'' Elymnias esaca'' (Westwood, 1851) *'' Elymnias harterti'' Honrath, 1889 *'' Elymnias hewitsoni'' Wallace, 1869 – Hewitson's palmfly *'' Elymnias hicetas'' Wallace, 1869 *'' Elymnias holofernes'' (Butler, 1882) *'' Elymnias hypermnestra'' (Linnaeus, 1763) – common palmfly *'' Elymnias kamara'' Moore,
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/small> *'' Elymnias kanekoi'' Tsukada & Nishiyama, 1980 *'' Elymnias kuenstleri'' Honrath, 885/small> *'' Elymnias lise'' (Hemming, 1960) *'' Elymnias luteofasciata'' Okubo, 1980 *'' Elymnias malelas'' (Hewitson, 1863) *'' Elymnias melias'' (C. & R. Felder, 1863) *'' Elymnias mimalon'' (Hewitson, 1861) *'' Elymnias nelsoni'' Corbet, 1942 *'' Elymnias nepheronides'' Fruhstorfer, 1907 *'' Elymnias nesaea'' (Linnaeus, 1764) – tiger palmfly *'' Elymnias obnubila'' Marshall & de Nicéville, 1883 *'' Elymnias panthera'' (Fabricius, 1787) – tawny palmfly *'' Elymnias papua'' Wallace, 1869 *'' Elymnias paradoxa'' Staudinger, 1894 *'' Elymnias patna'' (Westwood, 1851) – blue-striped palmfly *'' Elymnias pealii'' Wood-Mason, 1883 – Peal's palmfly *'' Elymnias pellucida'' Fruhstorfer, 1895 *'' Elymnias penanga'' (Westwood, 1851) – pointed palmfly *'' Elymnias sangira'' Fruhstorfer, 1899 *'' Elymnias singhala'' Moore, 875/small> – Ceylon palmfly *'' Elymnias tamborana'' Okubo, 2010 *'' Elymnias vasudeva'' Moore, 1857 – Jezebel palmfly *'' Elymnias vitellia'' (Stoll, 781 Formerly in ''Elymnias'': *'' Elymniopsis bammakoo'' Westwood, 1851 – African palmfly


Mimicry

Several species are mimics: *'' Taenaris catops'' – ''E. agondas'' *'' Euploea mulciber'' – ''E. kuenstleri'' *''
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'' – ''E. hypermnestra'' *''
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'' – ''E. kuenstleri'' *'' Delias pasithoe'' – ''E. esaca'' *'' Parantica melaneus'' – ''E. ceryx''


See also

* Elymniopsis


References


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Examples of mimicry
{{Taxonbar, from=Q3051879 Butterfly genera Taxa named by Jacob Hübner