Charaxinae

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Charaxinae

Common Nawab Polyura athamas (Drury) 1773,
a charaxine butterfly from India

Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
(unranked)	Rhopalocera
Superfamily:	Papilionoidea
Family:	Nymphalidae
Subfamily:	Charaxinae Guenée, 1865

Tribes and Genera

Charaxini Guenée, 1865
- Polyura (nawabs)
- Charaxes (rajahs and pashas)
Euxanthini Rydon, 1971
- Euxanthe
Pallini Rydon, 1971
- Palla
Prothoini Roepke, 1938
- Prothoe (Blue Begum)
- Agatasa (Glorious Begum)
Preponini Rydon, 1971
- Agrias
- Prepona
- Archaeoprepona
- Noreppa
- Anaeomorpha
Anaeini Reuter, 1896
- Coenophlebia
- Zaretis
- Siderone
- Hypna
- Anaea
- Polygrapha
- Consul
- Memphis

Charaxinae, the leafwings, is a nymphalid subfamily of butterflies that includes about 400 species, inhabiting mainly the tropics, although some species extend into temperate regions in North America, Europe, China and southern Australia.

Adults are very robust and fast flyers, and many are strongly attracted to drink liquids off carrion, dung, and rotten fruits, rather than nectar from flowers.

The eggs are smooth and round and generally with a somewhat concave apex.