Polyura pyrrhus
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Polyura pyrrhus pyrrhus | |
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Species: | C. pyrrhus
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Charaxes (Polyura) pyrrhus is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It was described by Carl Linnaeus in his 1758 10th edition of Systema Naturae. It is found in the Australasian realm including New Guinea, Australia, Timor, Moluccas.[2]
Subspecies
[edit]- C. p. pyrrhus (Buru, Ambon, Seram, Saraparua, Batjan)
- C. p. sempronius (Fabricius, 1793) (Australia)
- C. p. galaxia (Butler, [1866]) (Timor, Wetar)
- C. p. jovis (Staudinger, 1895) (Sumbawa)
- C. p. bandanus (Rothschild, 1898) (Banda Island)
- C. p. lettianus (Rothschild, 1898) (Letti)
- C. p. aloranus (Rothschild, 1898) (Alor)
- C. p. kalaonicus (Rothschild, 1898) (Kalao, Flores)
- C. p. scipio (Rothschild, 1898) (Sumba)
- C. p. babbericus (Fruhstorfer, 1903) (Babar)
- C. p. antigonus(Fruhstorfer, 1904) (Sermata, Damar)
- C. p. romanus (Fruhstorfer, 1904) (Romang)
- C. p. tiberius (Waterhouse, 1920) (Lord Howe Island)
Biology
[edit]The larva feeds on species in the genera Acacia, Albizia, Robinia, Cassia, Celtis and Ponsiana.
References
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[edit]Wikispecies has information related to Polyura pyrrhus.
- Polyura Billberg, 1820 at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms