ON : Aemona amathusia tonkinensis Rothschild, 1916 OD : Novit. zool. 23: 300. TL : "Tonkin" [N.Vietnam]. (NHML) Distribution : Laos, Vietnam, Guandong.

Aemona amathusia cochinensis Brooks,1949; Entomologist 82: 256; TL: 'Laokai, Cochin China' [Lao Cai, N.Vietnam]. (NHML)

tonkinensis : Holotype ♂, Rh.15494, Yenbay, Tonkin. (NHML)
cochinensis : Holotype ♂, Rh.15531, Jun.1936. Laokai, 'Cochin China' [Tonkin]. Masseyeff (NHML)

[ LAOS ]
Aemona amathusia f. amathusia: Dubois & Vitalis,1924 : 32. (Pou-Mi; Xieng-Kong)
Aemona amathusia amathusia: Osada et al.,1999 : 212, not fig. (list only)
Aemona amathusia amathusia: Uémura,2005 : 4. (by literature)
Aemona amathusia tonkinensis: Nakamura et al.,2021 : 8–10, figs.2,♂,2v♂(Un),3,♂,3v♂,4,♂,4v♂(Un),12,♀,12v♀(Un),13,♀,13v♀(Un),14,♀,14v♀(Un),15,♀,15v♀(Un),16,♀,16v♀(Un). (N: Houa Phan; C: Kammouan; Bolikhamxai)
Aemona amathusia tonkinensis: Onodera,2022 : 65, pl.188, figs.♂,♂(Un),♀,♀(Un). (Khammouan: Nakai; Houaphan: Phou Pan)

[ VIETNAN ]
Aemona amathusia amathusia: Nishimura,1999 : 3, figs.3–4(ST,♂,tonkinensis Up & Un),5–6(HT,♂,cohinensis Up & Un),33,♂,34,♀. (Vinh Phu: Tam Dao)
Aemona tonkinensis tonkinensis: Devyatkin & Monastyrskii,2008 : 287–288, col. pl.18, figs.3,♂,4♂(Un). (N; C)
Aemona tonkinensis tonkinensis: Monastyrskii,2011 : 85–87, pl.17, figs.a♂,b♂(Un),c♀,d♀(Un). (N: Hoang Lien; Ba Be; Tam Dao; C: Vu Quang; Ke Bang)
Aemona tonkinensis tonkinensis: Monastyrskii & Devyatkin,2015 : 28. (N; C: to Quang Binh)

There are various opinions on the treatment of this taxon. I am provisionally following Monastyrskii (2021), but the classification of each species in genus Aemona needs to be reviewed in the future, including DNA analysis.

Rothschild, L, 1916. Notes on Amathusiidae, Brassolidae, Morphidae, etc., with Descriptions of New Forms.
Novitates zoologicae, 23: 299–318.

Brooks, C.J, 1949. New subspecies in the Genera Faunis, Aemona, Stichophthalma and Enispe, with Revisional Notes (Lep. Amathusiidae).
Entomologist, 82: 256–259.

Nishimura, M, 1999. A review of the genus Aemona Hewitson (Lpidoptera, Nymphalidae), with descriptions of a new genus and a new species from North Myanmar.
Tyô to Ga, 50(1): 1–15, 67 figs.

Devyatkin, A.L. & Monastyrskii, A.L, 2008. Revisional notes on the Aemona amathusia (Hewitson, 1868) complex of taxa (Lepidoptera, Amathusiidae).
Atalanta, 39(1/4): 287–291.

Monastyrskii, A.L. & Vu, V.L, 2021. New taxa and new records of butterflies from Vietnam (Lepidoptera, Papilionoidea).
Zootaxa, 5048(4): 486–510.

Nakamura, N, Uémura, Y. & Onodera, H, 2021. Confirmation of the record of Aemona amathusia (Hewitson, 1867) from Laos.
Butterflies, 86: 8–13.

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