Charaxes agrarius

Anomalous nawab
Dorsal view
Ventral view, Karnataka, India
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Nymphalidae
Genus:	Charaxes
Species:	C. agrarius
Binomial name
Charaxes agrarius C. Swinhoe, 1887
Synonyms
Charaxes agraria Polyura agraria Polyura athamas agraria

Charaxes agrarius,[1] the anomalous nawab,[2][3] is a butterfly found in Asia that belongs to the rajahs and nawabs group, that is, the Charaxinae subfamily of the brush-footed butterflies family.[2][3] The name is based on their resemblance to the common nawab (Polyura athamas), which was described before the discovery of this species.

Description

For a key to the terms used, see Glossary of entomology terms.

Male and female: Both wings with the yellow discal band uniformly narrower, the outer edge of the band more irregular, undulated, the portions between the medians being each somewhat incurved. Forewing with a large quadrate lower submarginal spot and two small superposed apical spots. Hindwing with yellowish-white rounded submarginal spots, the upper minute, the lower three large and dento-lunate; marginal ochreous lunules not present in the male, very indistinct in female, the lower bluish-grey streaks only present in male. Underside similar to Polyura athamas, but paler.

— Frederic Moore, Lepidoptera Indica: Volume II[4]

See also

• Polyura athamas
• List of butterflies of India (Nymphalidae)

Footnotes

1. Swinhoe, Charles (1887). "On the Lepidoptera of Mhow, in Central India". Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. London: 425.
2. Kehimkar, Isaac (2016). Butterflies of India (2016 ed.). Mumbai: Bombay Natural History Society. ISBN 9789384678012.
3. Varshney, R. K.; Smetacek, Peter (2015). A Synoptic Catalogue of the Butterflies of India. New Delhi: Butterfly Research Centre, Bhimtal & Indinov Publishing. p. 155. doi:10.13140/RG.2.1.3966.2164. ISBN 978-81-929826-4-9.
4. One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain: Moore, Frederic (1893–1896). Lepidoptera Indica: Volume II. London: Lovell Reeve and Co. pp. 257–259.

References

• Evans, W. H. (1932). The Identification of Indian Butterflies (2nd ed.). Mumbai, India: Bombay Natural History Society.
• Wynter-Blyth, Mark Alexander (1957). Butterflies of the Indian Region. Bombay, India: Bombay Natural History Society. ISBN 978-8170192329.