Prothoe australis
Species of butterfly
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Prothoe australis is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It was described by Félix Édouard Guérin-Méneville in 1831. It is found in the Australasian realm.Seitz provides a description. [2]
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| Prothoe australis | |
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| Prothoe australis satgeii in Transactions of the Entomological Society of London (figure 4) | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Nymphalidae |
| Genus: | Prothoe |
| Species: | P. australis |
| Binomial name | |
| Prothoe australis (Guérin-Méneville, [1831])[1] | |
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Subspecies
- P. a. australis (Waigeu, Misool)
- P. a. mulderi (Vollenhoven, 1863) (Batchian, Halmahera)
- P. a. westwoodi Wallace, 1869 (Aru)
- P. a. hewitsoni Wallace, 1869 (Irian Jaya)
- P. a. layardi Godman & Salvin, 1882 (New Ireland)
- P. a. schulzi Ribbe, 1898 (New Britain)
- P. a. mafalda Fruhstorfer, 1906 (Papua)
- P. a. menodora Fruhstorfer, 1906 (British New Guinea)
- P. a. decolorata Fruhstorfer, 1906 (Misool)
- P. a. satgeii Joicey & Noakes, 1915 (Biak)
