Polyura nepenthes

Polyura nepenthes
Polyura nepenthes nepenthes male verso.
Scientific classification
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 nepenthes Grose-Smith, 1883 Charaxes (Polyura) nepenthes Eriboea nepenthes fugator Fruhstorfer, 1914 Eriboea nepenthes kiangsiensis Rousseau-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]

Subspecies

• P. n. nepenthes (Burma, Thailand, Indo-China, southern China, Hainan)
• P. n. kiangsiensis (Rousseau-Decelle, 1938) (China: Jiangxi, Zhejiang)

Biology

The larva feeds on Leguminosae.

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

External links

• Polyura Billberg, 1820 at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms