Melanocyma
Monotypic brush-footed butterfly genus / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Melanocyma is a monotypic butterfly genus in the subfamily Morphinae of the family Nymphalidae. Its one species Melanocyma faunula, the pallid faun, is restricted to Burma, Malaya, Thailand and Indochina in the Indomalayan realm.[1]
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Genus: | Melanocyma Westwood, 1858 |
Species: | M. faunula |
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The wingspan of M. faunula is at around 90 millimetres.[2] Individuals found in lowland forests are often smaller than specimens of M. faunula found on hills.[3]
There are two subspecies, M. f. kimurai and M. f. faunula