Polyura epigenes

Polyura epigenes
In Henley Grose-Smith's Rhopalocera Exotica
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Arthropoda
Class:
Insecta
Order:
Lepidoptera
Family:
Nymphalidae
Genus:
Charaxes
Species:
C. epigenes
Binomial name
Charaxes epigenes
(Godman & Salvin, 1888)[1]
Synonyms
  • Polyura epigenes
  • Charaxes (Eulepsis) epigenes f. monochromus Niepelt, 1914

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]

Subspecies

  • C. e. epigenes (Tulagi, Guadalcanal)
  • C. e. monochroma (Niepelt, 1914) (Bougainville, Shorthlan Island, Choiseul Island, Vella Lavella, Rendova, Santa Isabel)

Description

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]


References

  1. ^ Godman & Salvin, 1888 New species of Butterflies collected by Mr. C. M. Woodford in the Solomon Islands Annals and Magazine of Natural History (6) 1 (2): 90-101, (3): 209-214
  2. ^ Hans Fruhstorfer in Seitz, A., 1912–1927. Die Indo-Australien Tagfalter Grossschmetterlinge Erde 9
  3. ^ Hans Fruhstorfer in Seitz ed. Die Großschmetterlinge der Erde, Verlag Alfred Kernen, Stuttgart Band 9: Abt. 2, Die exotischen Großschmetterlinge, Die indo-australischen Tagfalter, 1927, 1197 Seiten 177 Tafeln Public Domain This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.


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