Polyura gamma

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Polyura gamma
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Polyura gamma (male)
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C. gamma
Binomial name
Charaxes gamma
(Lathy, 1898) [1]
Synonyms
  • Polyura gamma
  • Eriboea aristophanesFruhstorfer, 1913

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. [2]

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Description

E. gamma Lathy, is the smallest Eriboea. Above blackish-brown with a short narrow cream-coloured median band and some indistinct, diffuse submarginal spots. Under surface with bands of vandyke-brown and blackish colour and shades. Only two males known, now in the British Museum. Patria probably New Caledonia or the New Hebrides. [3]

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References

  1. Lathy, 1898 A new species of Charaxes The Entomologist 31: 226-227
  2. Seitz, A., 1912-1927. Die Indo-Australien Tagfalter Grossschmetterlinge Erde 9
  3. Hans Fruhstorfer in Seitz, A., 1912–1927. Die Indo-Australien Tagfalter Grossschmetterlinge Erde 9

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