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| Charaxes cognatus Vollenhoven, 1861 [1] | |
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Charaxes (Polyura) cognatus, the Sulawesi blue nawab, is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It was described by Samuel Constantinus Snellen van Vollenhoven in 1861. It is endemic to Sulawesi. [2]
Polyura cognatus is a large butterfly with forewings with a concave outer edge and hindwings with two tails each. The upper side is brown with white dots on the forewings and a white patch bordered with blue on the inner edge, which continues in a wide band on the hind wings. A submarginal line of white dots and blue lines in the centre of the tails complete the ornamentation of the hind wings. The reverse side is beige marked with grey with the same ornamentation of red spots edged with metallic blue and blue lines on the hind wings.
E. cognatus Voll. (135 a) replaces schreiber in Celebes and agrees with it in the rare chromatic symphony of black, blue and white. The white median band of the forewings broken up into single spots, in addition a submarginal series of small white streaks being absent in the schreiber-forms. Median area of the hindwings horter but more extensively encircled by a blue tinge than in the Javanese race of E. schreiber. Tails with heir points nearer to each other. Under surface characterized by a pronounced net of black stripes surrounding and defining two silvery white spots of the cell of the forewing and the median band of the hindwing.cognatus is rare in all the parts of the island, but seems to occur the most numerously in August in the north, as for instance near Palu, as well as in the south of Celebes. The female is not yet discovered. [3]
Polyura arja, the pallid nawab, is a butterfly belonging to the rajahs and nawabs group, that is, the Charaxinae subfamily of the brush-footed butterflies family.
Polyura delphis, the jewelled nawab, is a butterfly found in India and Southeast Asia that belongs to the rajahs and nawabs group, that is, the Charaxinae subfamily of the brush-footed butterflies family. The front wings have a concave outer edge and hind wings bear two tails.The upperside is white, largely marked with brown at the apex of the forewings. The reverse is metallic white decorated with yellow chevron lines and red marks. The wingspan is about 2.75 inches (70 mm).
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Graphium antheus, the large or larger striped swordtail, is a species of butterfly in the family Papilionidae (swallowtails), found in tropical and sub-Saharan Africa.
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Charaxes odysseus is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It is found on the island of São Tomé. The species was described by Otto Staudinger in 1892.
Polyura hebe, the plain nawab, is a butterfly belonging to the brush-footed butterflies family (Nymphalidae).
Charaxes distanti is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It was described by Eduard Honrath in 1885. It is found in the Indomalayan realm.
Charaxes plateni is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It was described by Otto Staudinger in 1889. It is endemic to Palawan in the Indomalayan realm.
Charaxes affinis is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It was described by Arthur Gardiner Butler in 1866. It is found in the Indomalayan realm.
Polyura jalysus, the Indian Yellow Nawab, is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It was described by Cajetan Felder and Rudolf Felder in 1867. It is found in the Indomalayan realm.
Charaxes antonius is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It was described by Georg Semper in 1878. It is endemic to Mindanao (Philippines) in the Indomalayan realm.
Charaxes elwesi is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It was described by James John Joicey and George Talbot in 1922. It is endemic to Sumbawa and Sumba in the Indomalayan realm.
Charaxes ocellatus is a butterfly belonging to the family Nymphalidae. It was first described by Hans Fruhstorfer in 1896. This species is endemic to the Lesser Sunda Islands in the Australasian realm, near the Wallace line.
Charaxes (Polyura) dehanii is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It was described by John Obadiah Westwood in 1850. It is found in the Indomalayan realm in Java and Sumatra.
Charaxes (Polyura) epigenes is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It was described by Frederick DuCane Godman and Osbert Salvin in 1888. It is endemic to the Solomon Islands.
Charaxes (Polyura) gamma is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It was described by Percy Ireland Lathy in 1898. It is endemic to New Caledonia.
Charaxes (Polyura) pyrrhus is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It was described by Carl Linnaeus in his 1758 10th edition of Systema Naturae. It is found in the Australasian realm including New Guinea, Australia, Timor, Moluccas.
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