Polyura narcaeus, the China nawab, is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae.[2] It was described by William Chapman Hewitson in 1854. It is found in the Palearctic and Indomalayan realms.[3]
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Nymphalidae |
| Subfamily: | Charaxinae |
| Tribe: | Charaxini |
| Genus: | Polyura |
| Species: | P. narcaeus |
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| Polyura narcaeus | |
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Subspecies
- P. n. narcaeus (China, Naga Hills, Abor Valley, North Burma)
- P. n. menedemus (Oberthür, 1891) (China: Ta-tsien-lou, Moenia, Yunnan)
- P. n. meghaduta (Fruhstorfer, 1908) (Taiwan)
- P. n. aborica (Evans, 1924) (south-eastern Tibet, northern Assam)
- P. n. thawgawa (Tytler, 1940) (central Burma to Vietnam, Yunnan)
- P. n. lissainei (Tytler, 1914) (Assam: Naga Hills to Thailand)
Biology
The larva feeds on Trema orientalis, Celtis formosana, Pithecellobium lucidum, Prunus phaeosticta.
References
External links
Wikispecies has information related to Polyura narcaeus.
- Polyura Billberg, 1820 at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms