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Lethe kansa

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Bamboo forester
Ventral view of bamboo forester butterfly
Lethe kansa in Lepidoptera Indica
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Clade: Pancrustacea
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Nymphalidae
Genus: Lethe
Species:
L. kansa
Binomial name
Lethe kansa
(Moore, 1857)[1]

Lethe kansa, the bamboo forester, is a species of Satyrinae butterfly found in the Indomalayan realm [2][3]

Subspecies

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  • L. k. kansa Sikkim, Kumaon to Assam, Burma
  • L. k. zeugitana Fruhstorfer, 1911 Assam, Manipur
  • L. k. vaga Fruhstorfer, 1911 Burma, Thailand, Yunnan

References

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  1. Moore, 1857 [1858] A Catalogue of the Lepidopterous Insects in the Museum of the Hon. East-India Company in Horsfield & Moore 1: : 1-278
  2. "Lethe Hübner, [1819]" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
  3. Weymer, G. 1910-1911. 4. Familie: Satyridae. In: Seitz, A. (Ed.), Die Gross-Schmetterlinge der Erde. Stuttgart, A. Kernen. 5: 185-225.