Polyura jupiter
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Clade: | Pancrustacea |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Nymphalidae |
| Genus: | Polyura |
| Species: | P. jupiter |
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| Polyura jupiter (Butler, 1869) | |
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Polyura jupiter is a butterfly of the family Nymphalidae. It is found in Indonesia and surrounding islands.
The upper side is brown, very largely marked with white, with forewings in a triangle from the costal margin and in the form of spots, including small ones in a submarginal line, and on the hindwings in a broad triangle, from the costal edge to the anal angle marked by an orange spot. Walter Rothschild and Karl Jordan (1900) provide a full description.
The larvae feed on Albizia stipulata.
Subspecies
- Polyura jupiter jupiter (western Papua)
- Polyura jupiter kronos (Honrath, 1888) (Bismarck Archipelago)
- Polyura jupiter admiralitatis (Rothschild, 1915) (Admiralty Islands)
- Polyura jupiter attila (Grose-Smith, 1889) (Guadalcanal)
- Polyura jupiter keianus (Rothschild & Jordan, 1897) (Key)
- Polyura jupiter seitzi (Rothschild, 1897) (Tanimbar)
- Polyura jupiter watubela (Rothschild, 1903) (Watubela)
Taxonomy
Currently a subspecies of Polyura pyrrhus Pollyura pyrrhus ssp. jupiter Butler, 1869
References
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- ↑ Polyura at funet
- ↑ Walter Rothschild and Karl Jordan — A monograph of Charaxes and the allied prionopterous genera. Novitates Zoologicae 7:281-524. (1900
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