Lebadea martha, the knight, is a species of nymphalid butterfly found in tropical and subtropical Asia.

Knight
Lebadea martha martha, Lâm Đồng, Vietnam
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L. martha
Binomial name
Lebadea martha
(Fabricius, 1787)[1]

Subspecies

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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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  1. ^ a b "Lebadea Felder, 1861" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
  • Beccaloni, George; Scoble, Malcolm; Kitching, Ian; Simonsen, Thomas; Robinson, Gaden; Pitkin, Brian; Hine, Adrian; Lyal, Chris. "The Global Lepidoptera Names Index (LepIndex)". Natural History Museum, London. Retrieved 2016-10-15.
  • 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.