Polyura

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

This article is about the brush-footed butterfly genus. For the Rubiaceae genus, see Polyura (plant).

Polyura

Polyura (pyrrhus) sempronius

Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
(unranked)	Rhopalocera
Superfamily:	Papilionoidea
Family:	Nymphalidae
Subfamily:	Charaxinae
Tribe:	Charaxini
Genus:	Polyura Billberg, 1820

Species

Many, see text

Polyura is the genus of nawab butterflies. They belong to the brush-footed butterfly subfamily Charaxinae, or leafwing butterflies. Like the large and conspicuous pasha and rajah butterflies (Charaxes) they belong to the Charaxini tribe.

[edit] Species

The following list is neither checked for completeness nor verified for synonymy.

Polyura aborica
Polyura abrupta
Polyura acuminata
Polyura acutus
Polyura admiralitatis
Polyura aemiliani
Polyura aeolus
Polyura agraria^{[verification needed]} - Anomalous Common Nawab
Polyura albanus
Polyura aloranus
Polyura alphius
Polyura andamanicus
Polyura andrewsi
Polyura antigonus
Polyura aristophanes
Polyura arja - Pallid Nawab
Polyura arna
Polyura arnoldi
Polyura assamensis
Polyura athamas - Common Nawab; includes P. samatha
Polyura athamis^{[verification needed]}
Polyura attalus
Polyura attila
Polyura australis
Polyura babbericus
Polyura bandanus
Polyura batavianus
Polyura baweanicus
Polyura bharata^{[verification needed]}
Polyura buruanus
Polyura buruensis
Polyura canomaculatus
Polyura caphontis
Polyura carolus
Polyura celetis
Polyura centralis
Polyura chalazias
Polyura charata
Polyura chersonesus
Polyura chlorus
Polyura chota
Polyura clavata
Polyura clitarchus
Polyura clitiphon
Polyura cognatus
Polyura concha
Polyura cupidinius
Polyura cygnus
Polyura dehaanii
Polyura delphinion
Polyura delphis - Jewelled Nawab
Polyura dexippus
Polyura dolon - Stately Nawab - formerly "Stately Rajah", in Charaxes
Polyura editha
Polyura entheatus

Polyura ephebus
Polyura epigenes
Polyura eudamippus - Great Nawab
Polyura falculus
Polyura faliscus
Polyura fallacides
Polyura fallax
Polyura formosana
Polyura fruhstorferi
Polyura fugator
Polyura galaxia
Polyura gamma
Polyura genymedes
Polyura gilolensis
Polyura glauca
Polyura grandis
Polyura hamasta^{[verification needed]}
Polyura hamastiformis
Polyura hebe
Polyura heracles
Polyura intermedia
Polyura jalysus
Polyura jamblichus
Polyura javanus
Polyura jovis
Polyura jupiter
Polyura juta
Polyura kaba
Polyura kadenii
Polyura kailicus
Polyura kalaonicus
Polyura kangeanus
Polyura kannegieteri
Polyura keianus
Polyura kiangsiensis
Polyura kronos
Polyura kuangtungensis
Polyura lemoulti
Polyura lettianus
Polyura lissainei
Polyura lombokianus
Polyura luzonicus
Polyura madeus
Polyura magniplagus
Polyura major
Polyura malayicus
Polyura mandarinus
Polyura marginalis
Polyura marginepunctatus
Polyura meghaduta
Polyura menaius
Polyura menedemus
Polyura monochromus
Polyura moori - Malayan Nawab
Polyura narcaea^{[verification needed]} - China Nawab
Polyura nepenthes

Polyura niasicus
Polyura nigra
Polyura nigrobasalis
Polyura nikias
Polyura niveus
Polyura noko
Polyura obiensis
Polyura oitylus
Polyura othonis
Polyura palawanicus
Polyura pallida
Polyura peninsularis
Polyura phrixus
Polyura piepersianus
Polyura plautus
Polyura posidonius
Polyura praedictus
Polyura pyrrhulus
Polyura pyrrhus - Tailed Nawab or Tailed Emperor
- Polyura (pyrrhus) sempronius
Polyura pyrrichia
Polyura quaesita
Polyura rectifascia
Polyura richthofeni
Polyura roeberi
Polyura romanus
Polyura rothschildi
Polyura sacco
Polyura saida
Polyura sandakanus
Polyura satyrina
Polyura schreiber - Blue Nawab. schreiberi is an unjustified emendation.
Polyura scipio
Polyura seitzi
Polyura sinica
Polyura smerdis
Polyura splendens
Polyura stratiocus
Polyura sulthan
Polyura sumatrana
Polyura sumbaensis
Polyura thawgawa
Polyura thibetanus
Polyura tiberius
Polyura tisamenus
Polyura triphonius
Polyura tyrtaeus
Polyura uraeus
Polyura valesius
Polyura vernus
Polyura walshae
Polyura wardii
Polyura watubela
Polyura weismanni
Polyura whiteheadi