Polyura nepenthes

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Polyura nepenthes
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Polyura nepenthes nepenthes male verso.
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Nymphalidae
Subfamily: Charaxinae
Tribe: Charaxini
Genus: Polyura
Species:
P. nepenthes
Binomial name
Polyura nepenthes
(Grose-Smith, 1883) [1]
Synonyms
  • Charaxes nepenthesGrose-Smith, 1883
  • Charaxes (Polyura) nepenthes
  • Eriboea nepenthes fugatorFruhstorfer, 1914
  • Eriboea nepenthes kiangsiensisRousseau-Decelle, 1938

Polyura nepenthes is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. [2] It was described by Henley Grose-Smith in 1883. It is found in the Indomalayan realm. [3]

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Subspecies

Biology

The larva feeds on Leguminosae.

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References

  1. ↑ Grose-Smith, 1883 "Descriptions of three new species of Charaxes" Entomologist's Monthly Magazine 20: 57-58
  2. ↑ Beccaloni, G.; Scoble, M.; Kitching, I.; Simonsen, T.; Robinson, G.; Pitkin, B.; Hine, A.; Lyal, C., eds. (2003). "Polyura nepenthes​". The Global Lepidoptera Names Index . Natural History Museum.
  3. ↑ Seitz, A., 1912-1927. Die Indo-Australien Tagfalter Grossschmetterlinge Erde 9


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