Lebadea martha

Life-forms

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Cladus: Unikonta
Cladus: Opisthokonta
Cladus: Holozoa
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: Limenitidinae
Tribus: Parthenini
Genus: Lebadea
Species: Lebadea martha
Subspecies: L. m. distincta – L. m. formosa – L. m. jecieli – L. m. martha – L. m. nebula – L. m. onishii – L. m. paulina – L. m. sebuku – L. m. tessellata – L. m. undulata
Name

Lebadea martha (Fabricius, 1787)
Synonyms

Papilio martha Fabricius, 1787

References

Fabricius, J.C. 1787. Mantissa insectorum, sistens eorum species nuper detectas adiectis characteribus genericis, differentiis specificis, emendationibus, observationibus. Vol. 2: 382 pp. Christ. Gottl. Proft, Hafniae. BHL Reference page.

Primary references

Hanafusa, H. 1990a: Four new subspecies of Nymphalid butterflies from Indonesia and Thailand. Futao 5: 12–14. Reference page.
Hanafusa, H. 1993. Six new butterflies from Indonesia (Lep.: Satyridae, Nymphalidae, Riodinidae). Futao 12: 6–9. Reference page.
Hanafusa, H., 1993: A list of butterflies from Mentawai Islands, Indonesia (3). Futao 14: 8–25.
Schroeder, H. & C.G. Treadaway, 1990: Neue Lepidopteren, insbesondere vom südlichen Sulu-Archipel, 4. Entomologische Zeitschrift 100 (?): 461–467.

Lebadea martha, the knight, is a species of nymphalid butterfly found in tropical and subtropical Asia.
Subspecies

Listed alphabetically.[1]

L. m. attenuata Moore, 1878 (Burma)
L. m. distincta Corbet, 1942 (Mentawai Islands)
L. m. ismene (Doubleday, [1848])
L. m. malayana Fruhstorfer, 1902 – knight
L. m. martha Cambodia
L. m. moorei Hall, 1930
L. m. natuna Fruhstorfer, 1902 (Natuna Islands)
L. m. nebula Chou, Zhang & Xie, 2000
L. m. paduka (Moore, 1857) (northern Borneo)
L. m. parkeri Eliot, 1978 (Singapore)
L. m. sumatrensis Staudinger, 1886 (Sumatra)
L. m. wallacei Moore, 1898 (south-western Sumatra)

References
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"Lebadea Felder, 1861" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms

Beccaloni, George; Scoble, Malcolm; Kitching, Ian; Simonsen, Thomas; Robinson, Gaden; Pitkin, Brian; Hine, Adrian; Lyal, Chris. "The Global Lepidoptera Names Index (LepIndex)". Natural History Museum, London. Retrieved 2016-10-15.
Evans, W.H. (1932). The Identification of Indian Butterflies (2nd ed.). Mumbai, India: Bombay Natural History Society.
Wynter-Blyth, Mark Alexander (1957). Butterflies of the Indian Region. Bombay, India: Bombay Natural History Society. ISBN 978-8170192329.