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| Species: | C. cognatus |
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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]
Pieter van Vollenhoven Jr. is the husband of Princess Margriet of the Netherlands and a member, by marriage, of the Dutch royal house.
The Great Plains toad is a relatively large species of true toad native to central North America.
Ixias is a genus of pierid butterflies ranging from the Arabian Peninsula to the Philippines, mostly in the Indomalayan realm.
Polyura is a subgenus of butterflies also referred to as Nawab butterflies and belonging to the brush-footed butterfly subfamily Charaxinae, or leafwing butterflies. Like the large and conspicuous forest queens, they belong to the genus Charaxes, unique genus of the tribe Charaxini.
Delias is a genus of butterflies. There are about 250 species of the genus Delias, found in South Asia and Australia. The genus is considered to have its evolutionary origins in the Australian region.
Euthalia is a genus of brush-footed butterflies. They are commonly called barons or dukes.
Samuel Constant Snellen van Vollenhoven was a Dutch entomologist. He is not to be confused with Pieter Cornelius Tobias Snellen another entomologist from Rotterdam.
Immetalia is a genus of moths of the family Noctuidae. The genus was erected by Karl Jordan in 1896.
Leptosia, commonly called wood whites, is a genus of pierid butterflies. It is the only genus of the tribe Leptosiaini. Leptosia are found in Africa, except for Leptosia nina, which ranges from India to Australia, and Leptosia lignea, which is found only on Sulawesi. All have a frail appearance and broad rounded wings. They are only distantly related to the Palearctic wood whites Leptidea (Dismorphiinae).
Odontolabis is a genus of beetles belonging to the family Lucanidae.
Nyctemera tripunctaria is a moth of the family Erebidae first described by Carl Linnaeus in his 1758 10th edition of Systema Naturae. It is found in southern China, Cambodia, Thailand, Vietnam, Sundaland, the Philippines and on Sulawesi.
Tanaecia is a genus of butterflies of the family Nymphalidae.
Appias cardena, the yellow puffin, is a butterfly in the family Pieridae. It was described by William Chapman Hewitson in 1861. It is found in the Indomalayan realm.
Delias rosenbergii, Rosenberg's painted Jezebel, is a butterfly in the family Pieridae. It was described by Samuel Constantinus Snellen van Vollenhoven in 1865. It is found on the Wallace line. The name honours William Frederick Henry Rosenberg.
Euploea phaenareta, the giant crow is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It was described by Johann Gottlieb Schaller in 1785. It is found in the Indomalayan realm and the Australasian realm.
Charaxes (Polyura) alphius, or Staudinger's nawab, is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It was described by Otto Staudinger in 1886. It is found on Timor and Sulawesi near the Wallace Line.
Polyura narcaeus, the China nawab, is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It was described by William Chapman Hewitson in 1854. It is found in the Palearctic and Indomalayan realms.
Leptosia lignea, the Sulawesi wood white, is a butterfly of the family Pieridae, found on Sulawesi.
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