Polyura
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| Polyura | |
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| Polyura schreiber | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Nymphalidae |
| Genus: | Charaxes |
| Subgenus: | Polyura Billberg, 1820 |
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Polyura is a subgenus (or in some schemes a genus) of butterflies also referred to as Nawab butterflies[1][2] and belonging to the brush-footed butterfly subfamily Charaxinae, or leafwing butterflies. Like the large and conspicuous forest queens (subgenus Euxanthe), they belong to the genus Charaxes, unique genus of the tribe Charaxini.[3][4]
Polyura butterflies are native to the Indomalayan and Australasian realms. They are widespread from Pakistan to Okinawa Island, and from China to Pacific Islands (Fiji, New Caledonia, Vanuatu).
Systematics
- The subgenus Polyura was described by the Swedish naturalist Gustaf Johan Billberg in 1820.[1]
- The type species is Polyura pyrrhus (Linnaeus).
