Prothoe

This article is about a butterfly genus. For the mythological Amazon, see Prothoe (Amazon).

Prothoe is a genus of charaxine butterflies in the family Nymphalidae. Two of the three species are virtually restricted to western and central Melanesia, but the most widespread species, P. franck, occurs throughout a large part of South-East Asia and as far northwest as Assam in India.^[1]

Prothoe
Prothoe franck
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Nymphalidae
Tribe:	Prothoini
Genus:	Prothoe Hübner, [1824]
Species
Three, see text

Taxonomy

Species in this genus are:^[1]

• Prothoe australis (Guérin-Méneville, [1831])
• Prothoe ribbei Rothschild, 1895
• Prothoe franck (Godart, [1824])