Charaxes agrarius

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Charaxes agrarius
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Dorsal view
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Ventral view, Karnataka, India
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Nymphalidae
Genus: Charaxes
Species:
C. agrarius
Binomial name
Charaxes agrarius
C. Swinhoe, 1887
Synonyms
  • Charaxes agraria
  • Polyura agraria
  • Polyura athamas agraria

Charaxes agrarius, [1] the anomalous nawab, [2] [3] is a butterfly found in Asia that belongs to the rajahs and nawabs group, that is, the Charaxinae subfamily of the brush-footed butterflies family. [2] [3] The name is based on their resemblance to the common nawab (Polyura athamas), which was described before the discovery of this species.

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Description

Male and female: Both wings with the yellow discal band uniformly narrower, the outer edge of the band more irregular, undulated, the portions between the medians being each somewhat incurved. Forewing with a large quadrate lower submarginal spot and two small superposed apical spots. Hindwing with yellowish-white rounded submarginal spots, the upper minute, the lower three large and dento-lunate; marginal ochreous lunules not present in the male, very indistinct in female, the lower bluish-grey streaks only present in male. Underside similar to Polyura athamas , but paler.

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Footnotes

  1. Swinhoe, Charles (1887). "On the Lepidoptera of Mhow, in Central India". Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. London: 425.
  2. 1 2 Kehimkar, Isaac (2016). Butterflies of India (2016 ed.). Mumbai: Bombay Natural History Society. ISBN   9789384678012.
  3. 1 2 Varshney, R. K.; Smetacek, Peter (2015). A Synoptic Catalogue of the Butterflies of India. New Delhi: Butterfly Research Centre, Bhimtal & Indinov Publishing. p. 155. doi:10.13140/RG.2.1.3966.2164. ISBN   978-81-929826-4-9.
  4. PD-icon.svg One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain : Moore, Frederic (1893–1896). Lepidoptera Indica: Volume II. London: Lovell Reeve and Co. pp. 257–259.

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