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Polyura

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Subfamily
  
Charaxinae

Scientific name
  
Polyura

Higher classification
  
Charaxinae

Order
  
Butterflies and moths

Family
  
Nymphalidae

Tribe
  
Charaxini

Phylum
  
Arthropoda

Rank
  
Genus

Polyura Polyura sempronius Wikipedia

Similar
  
Butterfly, Polyura eudamippus, Nymphalidae, Insect, Butterflies and moths

A blue nawab polyura schreiber caterpillar moults to take on its pupal form


Polyura is the genus of nawab butterflies. They are native to the Indomalaya and Australasian ecozones that belong to the brush-footed butterfly subfamily Charaxinae, or leafwing butterflies. Like the large and conspicuous pasha and rajah butterflies (Charaxes) they belong to the Charaxini tribe. Recent genetic research has shown that some species of the genus Charaxes are more related to Polyura than to other Charaxes species. Polyura should therefore be included in Charaxes.

Contents

Polyura Butterflies of India Polyura athamas

Species

Listed alphabetically:

Polyura Caterpillars Polyura schreiber

  • Polyura agraria (Swinhoe, 1887) – anomalous common nawab (southern India, Burma)
  • Polyura alphius (Staudinger, 1886) – Staudinger's nawab (Sulawesi, Timor)
  • Polyura andrewsi (Butler, 1900) – Christmas emperor
  • Polyura arja (C. & R. Felder, [1867]) – pallid nawab (north-eastern India, Sikkim, Assam, Burma, Thailand, Indochina)
  • Polyura athamas (Drury, [1773]) – common nawab; includes P. samatha
  • Polyura caphontis (Hewitson, 1863)
  • Polyura clitarchus (Hewitson, 1874)
  • Polyura cognatus Vollenhoven, 1861 – Sulawesi blue nawab
  • Polyura dehanii (Westwood, 1850)
  • Polyura delphis (Doubleday, 1843) – jewelled nawab (Assam, Burma, Malaya, Sumatra, Borneo)
  • Polyura dolon (Westwood, 1847) – stately nawab, formerly stately rajah in Charaxes (Tibet, westernChina, Kulu, Assam, Burma)
  • Polyura epigenes (Godman & Salvin, 1888)
  • Polyura eudamippus (Doubleday, 1843) – great nawab (central China, Kumaon, Assam, Burma)
  • Polyura galaxia (Butler, [1866]) – Kalao nawab (Timor, Wetar)
  • Polyura gamma (Lathy, 1898)
  • Polyura gilolensis (Butler, 1869)
  • Polyura hebe (Butler, [1866]) – plain nawab
  • Polyura inopinatus (Röber, 1939)
  • Polyura jalysus (C. & R. Felder, [1867])
  • Polyura jupiter (Butler, 1869)
  • Polyura moori (Distant, 1883) – Malayan nawab (Malaya)
  • Polyura narcaeus (Hewitson, 1854) – China nawab (China, Naga Hills, Abor Valley, northern Burma)
  • Polyura nepenthes (Grose-Smith, 1883) – (eastern China)
  • Polyura posidonius (Leech, 1891) – (Tibet, China)
  • Polyura pyrrhus (Linnaeus, 1758) – tailed nawab, tailed emperor
  • Polyura sacco Smart, 1977
  • Polyura schreiber (Godart, [1824]) – blue nawab, schreiberi is an unjustified emendation
  • Polyura sempronius (Fabricius, 1793) – tailed emperor, four tail (Australia)

    • Polyura Butterflies of Malaysia Polyura jalysus

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    References

    Polyura Wikipedia
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