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Polyura delphis Doubleday, 1843

Taxonomy

class Insecta → subclass Pterygota → infraclass Neoptera → superorder Holometabola → order Lepidoptera → superfamily Papilionoidea → family Nymphalidae → subfamily Charaxinae → tribe Charaxini → genus Polyura → species Polyura delphis

Species name(s)

Polyura delphis Doubleday, 1843 = Charaxes delphis Doubleday, 1843 = Eulepis delphis = Polyura delphis delphis. [9, 85]

Jewelled Nawab.

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Expansion

Zoogeographical regions

Indo-Malayan, Australian.

Primary colors

Yellow, Brown/Gray/Black, White.

Subspecies of Polyura delphis

Polyura delphis concha (Vollenhoeven, 1861). [9]
P. d. cygnus (Rothschild, 1899). [9]
P. d. delphinion (Fruhstorfer, 1904). [9]
P. d. delphis. [9]
P. d. niveus (Rothschild, 1899). [9]
P. d. othonis (Fruhstorfer, 1904). [9]

Authors

Initial species uploading to the site: Peter Khramov.

Photos: Vasiliy Feoktistov.

The species characteristics formalization: Peter Khramov.

References

[9] Tree of Life (funet.fi), 2012
[85] Lepidoptera species catalogue, Lepidoptera.ru, 2015

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