| Polyura epigenes | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Nymphalidae |
| Genus: | Charaxes |
| Species: | C. epigenes |
| Binomial name | |
| Charaxes epigenes | |
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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. [2]
E. epigenes Godm. and Salv. becomes interesting by the unlikeness of the sexes, as is never noticed in a similar way in the Eriboea, but only in Charaxes. Male above purple and with a blackish hue over it. Forewing with indistinct, yellowish submarginal and transcellular small streaks. Hindwing with a series of blue spots of the same appearance and distribution as in E. pyrrhus jupiter . Under surface reddish chestnut-brown. Female larger by more than half. Upper surface with a steep vertical whitish longitudinal band being repeated beneath, though softened down and darkened. Salomon Islands. Very rare. But few specimens discovered so far. [3]
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