Polyura

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

Polyura is the genus of nawab butterflies. They are native to the Indomalaya and Australasian ecozones, and 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.

Species

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

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 sempronius
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

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