Elymnias

The palmflies are a common Asian butterfly genus found from India to the Solomon Islands. The caterpillars mimic leaves which they feed on. The adults mimic certain species (for example: E. cumaea looks like Melanitis leda).

Species
Listed alphabetically.
 * Elymnias agondas (Boisduval, 1832) – palmfly
 * Elymnias amoena Tsukada & Nishiyama, 1979
 * Elymnias beza (Hewitson, 1877)
 * Elymnias brookei Shelford, 1904
 * Elymnias casiphone Geyer, [1827]
 * Elymnias casiphonides Semper, 1892
 * Elymnias caudata Butler, 1871
 * Elymnias ceryx (Boisduval, 1836)
 * Elymnias congruens Semper, 1887
 * Elymnias cottonis (Hewitson, 1874)
 * Elymnias cumaea C. & R. Felder, [1867]
 * Elymnias cybele (C. & R. Felder, 1860)
 * Elymnias dara Distant & Pryer, 1887
 * Elymnias detanii Aoki & Uémura, 1982
 * Elymnias esaca (Westwood, 1851)
 * Elymnias harterti Honrath, 1889
 * Elymnias hewitsoni Wallace, 1869 – Hewitson's palmfly
 * Elymnias hicetas Wallace, 1869
 * Elymnias holofernes (Butler, 1882)
 * Elymnias hypermnestra (Linnaeus, 1763) – common palmfly
 * Elymnias kamara Moore, [1858]
 * Elymnias kanekoi Tsukada & Nishiyama, 1980
 * Elymnias kuenstleri Honrath, [1885]
 * Elymnias lise (Hemming, 1960)
 * Elymnias luteofasciata Okubo, 1980
 * Elymnias malelas (Hewitson, 1863)
 * Elymnias melias (C. & R. Felder, 1863)
 * Elymnias mimalon (Hewitson, 1861)
 * Elymnias nelsoni Corbet, 1942
 * Elymnias nepheronides Fruhstorfer, 1907
 * Elymnias nesaea (Linnaeus, 1764) – tiger palmfly
 * Elymnias obnubila Marshall & de Nicéville, 1883
 * Elymnias panthera (Fabricius, 1787) – tawny palmfly
 * Elymnias papua Wallace, 1869
 * Elymnias paradoxa Staudinger, 1894
 * Elymnias patna (Westwood, 1851) – blue-striped palmfly
 * Elymnias pealii Wood-Mason, 1883 – Peal's palmfly
 * Elymnias pellucida Fruhstorfer, 1895
 * Elymnias penanga (Westwood, 1851) – pointed palmfly
 * Elymnias sangira Fruhstorfer, 1899
 * Elymnias singhala Moore, [1875] – Ceylon palmfly
 * Elymnias tamborana Okubo, 2010
 * Elymnias vasudeva Moore, 1857 – Jezebel palmfly
 * Elymnias vitellia (Stoll, [1781])

Formerly in Elymnias:
 * Elymniopsis bammakoo Westwood, 1851 – African palmfly

Mimicry
Several species are mimics:
 * Taenaris catops – E. agondas
 * Euploea mulciber – E. kuenstleri
 * Danaus chrysippus – E. hypermnestra
 * Idea leuconoe – E. kuenstleri
 * Delias pasithoe – E. esaca
 * Parantica melaneus – E. ceryx