#danaid

• Amymone — The original form for the proper name Amymone; a character in Greek mythology, one of the fifty Danaids, loved by Poseidon, who saved her from a satyr and created in her honor the spring bearing her name in the Lerna region. In zoology and entomology, the term designates butterfly species (such as Mestra amymone) or other organisms classified after this mythological toponym.