Polyura narcaeus
Polyura narcaeus, the China nawab, is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae.[2] It was described by William Chapman Hewitson in 1854. It is found in the Palearctic and Indomalayan realms.[3]
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Family: | Nymphalidae |
Subfamily: | Charaxinae |
Tribe: | Charaxini |
Genus: | Polyura |
Species: | P. narcaeus |
Binomial name | |
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Subspecies
- P. n. narcaeus (China, Naga Hills, Abor Valley, North Burma)
- P. n. menedemus (Oberthür, 1891) (China: Ta-tsien-lou, Moenia, Yunnan)
- P. n. meghaduta (Fruhstorfer, 1908) (Taiwan)
- P. n. aborica (Evans, 1924) (south-eastern Tibet, northern Assam)
- P. n. thawgawa (Tytler, 1940) (central Burma to Vietnam, Yunnan)
- P. n. lissainei (Tytler, 1914) (Assam: Naga Hills to Thailand)
Biology
The larva feeds on Trema orientalis, Celtis formosana, Pithecellobium lucidum, Prunus phaeosticta.
References
- Hewitson, 1854 Illustrations of New Species of Exotic Butterflies Selected Chiefly from the Collections of W. Wilson Saunders And William C. Hewitson
- Beccaloni, G.; Scoble, M.; Kitching, I.; Simonsen, T.; Robinson, G.; Pitkin, B.; Hine, A.; Lyal, C., eds. (2003). "Polyura narcaeus". The Global Lepidoptera Names Index. Natural History Museum.
- 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
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