Tiger Palmwings
Elymnias nesaea
first update d. 11 november
2024
last update d. 11 november
2024
Tiger
Palmfly, Elymnias
nesaea ssp.
hermia (Fruhstorfer, 1907). Koh Samui, Thailand d. 14
january 2011. Photographer: Erni
Boesen |
Tiger Palmfly, Elymnias
nesaea
ssp. hermia (Fruhstorfer, 1907). Koh Samui, Thailand d. 14
january 2011. Photographer: Erni
Boesen
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Tiger
Palmfly, Elymnias
nesaea ssp.
timandra (Wallace, 1869). Chiang
Mai, Thailand February
2016. Photographer; Henrik S.
Larsen |
Photographer; Henrik S. Larsen and Erni Boesen.
Tiger
Palmwings/Tiger Palmfly. Elymnias nesaea (Linnaeus, 1764).
Intro: Subfamily Brown,
Satyrinae in the family Nymphalidae.
Description: The upperside of the wings is black
with long bluish-green streaks. Forewings show
four or five spots on the apical area, while
hindwings have subterminal whitish spots in the
posterior interspaces. The underside has a broad
dark brown area on both wings. In females, the
undersides are white with brown or yellowish
shading.
Wingspan: 6585 millimetres.
Mimics: The adult mimics Glassy Tiger, Parantica aglea (Stoll, 1782).
Foodplants: The larva feeds on various Palm, Arecaceae species.
Mainly on Sweet Flag, Calamus species. Chusan Palm and in
American- as Chinese windmill Palm, Trachycarpus
forturei. Red Palm, Cyrtostachys lakka.
Coconut
Palm, Cocos nucifera and Macarthur Palm, Ptychosperma macarthurii.
Distribution: This species can be found in India,
Thailand, Laos, Burma, Peninsular Malaya, Java,
Sumatra and Borneo. Bhutan.
Subspecies
Elymnias
nesaea nesaea
(Linnaeus, 1764). - W. Java. Wikipedia.
E.
n. ssp. timandra (Wallace, 1869). - Nepal, Sikkim,
Assam, northern Thailand, Laos, Yunnan.
E.
n. ssp. cortona (Fruhstorfer, 1911). - Burma.
E.
n. ssp. apelles (Fruhstorfer, 1902). - Thailand,
lower Burma, southern Yunnan.
E.
n. ssp. lioneli (Fruhstorfer, 1907).
Peninsular Malaya.
E.
n. ssp. laisides (de Nicéville, 1896). - Sumatra.
E.
n. ssp. neolais (de Nicéville, 1898). - Nias.
E.
n. ssp. kamarina (Fruhstorfer, 1906). - Batu
Islands.
E.
n. ssp. hypereides (Fruhstorfer, 1903). - northern
Borneo.
E.
n. ssp. coelifrons (Fruhstorfer, 1907).- southern
Borneo.
E.
n. ssp. hermia (Fruhstorfer, 1907). - eastern
Java.
E.
n. ssp. baweana (Hagen, 1896). Bawean.
E.
n. ssp. vordemani (Snellen, 1902). - Kangean
Islands.The palmflies are a common Asian butterfly genus
found from India to the Solomon Islands. The
caterpillars mimic leaves which they feed on. The
adults mimic certain species (for example: Elymnias
cumaea looks
like Common Evening Brown, Melanitis leda (Linnaeus, 1758).
Palmflies,/Palmwings, Elymnias (Hübner, 1818). 45 species.
Elymnias
agondas
(Boisduval, 1832). Palmfly.
Elymnias
amoena (Tsukada
& Nishiyama, 1979).
Elymnias
beza (Hewitson,
1877).
Elymnias
brookei (Shelford,
1904).
Elymnias
casiphone (Geyer,
[1827]).
Elymnias
casiphonides (Semper,
1892).
Elymnias
caudata (Butler,
1871).
Elymnias
ceryx
(Boisduval, 1836)
Elymnias
congruens (Semper,
1887).
Elymnias
cottonis
(Hewitson, 1874).
Elymnias
cumaea (C. &
R. Felder, [1867]).
Elymnias
cybele (C. &
R. Felder, 1860).
Elymnias
dara (Distant
& Pryer, 1887).
Elymnias
detanii (Aoki
& Uémura, 1982).
Elymnias
esaca (Westwood,
1851).
Elymnias
harterti (Honrath,
1889),
Elymnias
hewitsoni (Wallace,
1869). Hewitson's Palmfly.
Elymnias
hicetas (Wallace,
1869).
Elymnias
holofernes
(Butler, 1882).
Elymnias
hypermnestra
(Linnaeus, 1763). Common Palmfly.
Elymnias
kamara (Moore,
[1858]).
Elymnias
kanekoi (Tsukada
& Nishiyama, 1980).
Elymnias
kuenstleri (Honrath,
[1885]).
Elymnias
lise (Hemming,
1960).
Elymnias
luteofasciata (Okubo,
1980).
Elymnias
malelas
(Hewitson, 1863).
Elymnias
melias (C. &
R. Felder, 1863).
Elymnias
mimalon (Hewitson,
1861).
Elymnias
nelsoni (Corbet,
1942).
Elymnias
nepheronides (Fruhstorfer,
1907).
Elymnias
nesaea
(Linnaeus, 1764). Tiger Palmfly.
Elymnias
obnubila (Marshall
& de Nicéville, 1883).
Elymnias
panthera
(Fabricius, 1787) Tawny Palmfly.
Elymnias
papua (Wallace,
1869).
Elymnias
paradoxa (Staudinger,
1894).
Elymnias
patna (Westwood,
1851). Blue-striped Palmfly
Elymnias
pealii (Wood-Mason,
1883). Peal's Palmfly
Elymnias
pellucida (Fruhstorfer,
1895).
Elymnias
penanga
(Westwood, 1851). Pointed Palmfly
Elymnias
sangira (Fruhstorfer,
1899).
Elymnias
singhala (Moore,
[1875]). Ceylon Palmfly
Elymnias
tamborana (Okubo,
2010).
Elymnias
vasudeva (Moore,
1857). Jezebel Palmfly
Elymnias
vitellia (Stoll,
[1781])
Formerly in Elymnias:
Elymniopsis
bammakoo (Westwood,
1851). African Palmfly.
GBIF: Global Biodiversity
Information Facility.World
distribution:
Tiger
Palmwings. Elymnias
nesaea
(Linnaeus, 1764).
íNaturalist.org
began as the Master's
final project of Nate Agrin, Jessica Kline,
and Ken-ichi Ueda at UC Berkeley's School of Information
in 2008.
Tiger Palmwings. Elymnias nesaea (Linnaeus, 1764).
Tiger Palmwings/Tiger Palmfly, Elymnias nesaea (Linnaeus, 1764). Wikipedia
Palmwings/Palmflies, Elymnias (Hübner, 1818). 45 species.
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Common Palmfly, Elymnias
hypermnestra ssp.
lioneli (Fruhstorfer, 1907).
Langkawi, Malaysia february 26 - 27,
2019.
Photographer; Knud Ellegaard
Common Palmfly, Elymnias hypermnestra ssp. timandra (Wallace, 1869).
Chitwan National
Park, 280 m. Nepal, december 1995. Photographer; Lars Andersen
Common Palmfly, Elymnias hypermnestra ssp. timandra (Wallace, 1869).
Khao Lak-Lam Ru
National Park, Thailand d. 1 march 2020. Photographer; Knud Ellegaard
Tiger Palmfly, Elymnias nesaea ssp. hypereides (Fruhstorfer, 1903).
Kota Kinabalu,
Sabah, Borneo d. 26 march 2017. Photographer; John S. Petersen
Koh Samui, Thailand d. 21 january
2011. Photographer: Erni Boesen
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The blue hour
In the
evening when I sat by the river bank in the small
village of Sauraha with a cocktail called "Rhino's Horn" and watched the sunset.
Here there was fantastic wildlife, you could see
the shepherds coming home with the goats and the
water buffalo, and the elephants coming home from
work in the forest, as well as tourist jeeps
driving across the river back from the Jungle
Safari. Over the river, sailors and swallows fly,
just as they see the kingfisher stand on spinning
wings and suddenly dive down for a fish.
Lars Andersen: A story of riverside wildlife in
Chitwan National Park, Nepal. February 2000.
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Indian Rhinoceros, Rhinoceros
unicornis. In the evening during the blue hour at
Narayani-Rapti river system from
Sauraha, Royal
Chitwan National Park february 2000. Photographer: Lars Andersen
The
Annapurna Range, seen from Sauraha, Royal Chitwan
National Park november 1995. Photographer: Lars Andersen
Elefant
from Sauraha, Royal Chitwan National Park november 1995. Photographer: Lars Andersen
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