Lebadea martha Fabricius 1787

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)

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References

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• 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.