Chitoria ulupi

Tawny emperor
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Nymphalidae
Subfamily: Apaturinae[1]
Genus: Chitoria
Species: C. ulupi
Binomial name
Chitoria ulupi
(Doherty, 1889)
Synonyms
  • Potamis ulupi Doherty, 1889
  • Apatura ulupi
  • Apatura kalaurica Tytler, 1926
  • Apatura fulva Leech, 1891

Chitoria ulupi, the tawny emperor, is a species of nymphalid butterfly found in tropical Asia.

Subspecies

References

  1. Zhang M, Cao T, Zhang R, Guo Y, Duan Y, Ma E. 2007. Phylogeny of Apaturinae butterflies (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae) based on mitochondrial cytochrome oxidase I gene. Journal of Genetics and Genomics 34 (9): 812-23


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