Faunis eumeus

Large faun
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F. eumeus
Binomial name
Faunis eumeus
(Drury, 1773)

Faunis eumeus, the large faun[1] is a butterfly found in South and South East Asia that belongs to the Morphinae subfamily of the brush-footed butterfly family.

The assama subspecies of the large faun is now considered to be a separate species, Faunis assama (Westwood, 1858).[1][2]

  1. ^ a b "Faunis Hübner, [1819]" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
  2. ^ Evans, W.H. (1932). The Identification of Indian Butterflies (2nd ed.). Mumbai, India: Bombay Natural History Society. p. 131.