Agatasa is a butterfly genus in the brush-footed butterflies family (Nymphalidae). It is monotypic, containing only Agatasa calydonia, the glorious begum, which is found from southern Burma, through the Thai-Malay Peninsula, to Borneo, Sumatra and the Philippines.[1]
| Glorious begum | |
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| Agatasa calydonia calydonia | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Nymphalidae |
| Tribe: | Prothoini |
| Genus: | Agatasa Moore, [1899] |
| Species: | A. calydonia
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| Binomial name | |
| Agatasa calydonia (Hewitson, 1854)
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References
edit- ^ "Agatasa Moore, [1899]" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
Wikispecies has information related to Agatasa.
- Evans, W.H. (1932). The Identification of Indian Butterflies (2nd ed.). Mumbai, India: Bombay Natural History Society.
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