Aemona

Life-forms

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Protostomia
Cladus: Ecdysozoa
Cladus: Panarthropoda
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Hexapoda
Classis: Insecta
Cladus: Dicondylia
Subclassis: Pterygota
Cladus: Metapterygota
Infraclassis: Neoptera
Cladus: Eumetabola
Cladus: Endopterygota
Superordo: Panorpida
Cladus: Amphiesmenoptera
Ordo: Lepidoptera
Subordo: Glossata
Cladus: Coelolepida
Cladus: Myoglossata
Cladus: Neolepidoptera
Infraordo: Heteroneura
Cladus: Eulepidoptera
Cladus: Ditrysia
Cladus: Apoditrysia
Cladus: Obtectomera
Superfamilia: Papilionoidea

Familia: Nymphalidae
Subfamilia: Morphinae
Tribus: Amathusiini
Genus: Aemona
Species (19): A. amathusia – A. berdyevi – A. cochinensis – A. concolor –A. falcata – A. gialaica – A. haynei –A. implicata – A. infuscata – A. kalawrica – A. karennia – A. kontumei – A. lena – A. oberthüri – A. pacifica – A. pealii – A. pingpiensis – A. salweena – A. simulatrix – A. tengtuna – A. tonkinensis

Name

Aemona Hewitson, 1868
References

Devyatkin, A.L. 2007. A further new species of the genus Aemona Hewitson, [1868] from North Vietnam. Atalanta 38(3-4): 343-345. Reference page.
Monstyrskii, A.L. & Devyatkin, A.L. 2004. A new species of Aemona Hewitson, [1868] from Vietnam. Atalanta 35(1-2): 51–55. PDF. Reference page.
Lang, S.Y. 2017. A new subspecies of Aemona lena Atkinson, 1871 from S. Yunnan, China (Lepidoptera, Nymphalidae). Atalanta 48: 229-231. Reference page.
Lee, C.L. 1962. Some new species of Rhopalocera from China. II. Acta entomologica sinica 11(2): 139–148. PDF Reference page.
Monastyrskii, A.L. & Devyatkin, A.L., 2003. New taxa and new records of butterflies from Vietnam 2. Atalanta 34(1-2): 75–109. PDF. Reference page.
Monastyrskii, A.L. & Vu, V.L. 2021. New taxa and new records of butterflies from Vietnam (Lepidoptera, Papilionoidea). Zootaxa 5048(4): 486–510. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5048.4.2. Paywall. Reference page.
Nishimura, M., 1999: A review of the genus Aemona Hewitson (Lepidoptera, Nymphalidae), with descriptions of a new genus and a new species from North Myanmar. Transactions of the Lepidopterological Society of Japan 50(1): 1–15. Full article: [1].

Vernacular names
中文: 紋環蝶屬

Aemona is a genus of nymphalid butterflies from Southeast Asia, they are large yellow-brown butterflies resembling dead leaves. The wing apex is acute.
Species

Aemona amathusia (Hewitson, 1867)
Aemona lena Atkinson, 1872
Aemona peali Wood-Mason, 1880

References

"Aemona Hewitson, 1868" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms