Lethe wui
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| Lethe wui | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Clade: | Pancrustacea |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Nymphalidae |
| Genus: | Lethe |
| Species: | L. wui |
| Binomial name | |
| Lethe wui Huang, 1999 | |
| Synonyms | |
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Lethe wui, the Tibetan silverfork, golden mystic or Huang's mystic, is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It is found in Metok in Tibet and Arunachal Pradesh in India. It was described by Hao Huang in 1999.[1][2]
This species was described from one male collected in Metok, southeastern Tibet. Since then, this species has been sighted in Kachin, Myanmar in 2011[3] and Mayodia Pass, India in 2025.[4]