''Euthalia amanda'', the Sulawesi gaudy baron, is a butterfly endemic to

Sulawesi Sulawesi ( ), also known as Celebes ( ), is an island in Indonesia. One of the four Greater Sunda Islands, and the List of islands by area, world's 11th-largest island, it is situated east of Borneo, west of the Maluku Islands, and south of Min ...

, Indonesia. It was first described by

William Chapman Hewitson William Chapman Hewitson (9 January 1806, in Newcastle upon Tyne – 28 May 1878, in Oatlands Park, Surrey) was a British naturalist. A wealthy collector, Hewitson was particularly devoted to Coleoptera (beetles) and Lepidoptera (butterflies a ...

in 1862.

Subspecies

* ''E. a. amanda'' (Sulawesi,

Buton Buton (also Butung, Boeton or Button) is an island in Indonesia located off the southeast peninsula of Sulawesi. It covers roughly 4,727 square kilometers in area, or about the size of Madura; it is the 129th List of islands by area, largest is ...

) * ''E. a. selayarensis'' Tsukada, 1991 ( Selayar) * ''E. a. periya'' Fruhstorfer, 1913 ( Banggai) * ''E. a. irauana'' Jumalon, 1975 (Palawan)

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Butterflies of Southeastern Sulawesi

amanda Amanda is a Latin feminine gerundive (i.e. verbal adjective) name meaning, literally, "she who must (or is fit to) be loved". Other translations, with similar meaning, could be "deserving to be loved," "worthy of love," or "loved very much by ev ...

Butterflies of Indonesia Butterflies described in 1862 Taxa named by William Chapman Hewitson {{Limenitidinae-stub