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Elymnias agondas

species of insect

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
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Source revisionJun 24, 2026
Entity authorityQ13563597 ↗
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Elymnias agondas, the palmfly, is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It was described by Jean Baptiste Boisduval in 1832. It is endemic to New Guinea and neighbouring Cape York in the Australasian realm.

Subspecies

E. a. agondas (Salawati)

E. a. bioculatus Hewitson, 1851 (New Guinea: Arfak)

E. a. melane Hewitson, 1858 (Kai Island)

E. a. melantho Wallace, 1869 (Gagi Island, Gam Island, Waigeu)

E. a. glaucopis Staudinger, 1894 (Northeast New Guinea)

E. a. melanippe Grose-Smith, 1894 (German New Guinea)

E. a.

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This entry incorporates text from “Elymnias agondas” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.