Polyura: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Class
- Insecta
- Order
- Lepidoptera
- Family
- Nymphalidae
- Genus
- Polyura
- Species
- Scientific Name
- Polyura
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Polyura
- for the monotypic genus of plants, see Polyura geminata
Polyura is a subgenus of butterflies also referred to as Nawab butterflies 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.
...Polyura in languages:
- Chinese
- 尾蛺蝶屬
- English
- Nawab Butterflies
- Japanese
- フタオチョウ属
- Thai
- สกุล ผีเสื้อม้า
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Parent Taxon
Child Taxa
- Polyura agraria
- Polyura alphius
- Polyura andrewsi
- Polyura arja
- Polyura athamas
- Polyura betsimisaraka
- Polyura bharata
- Polyura caphontis
- Polyura chersonesus
- Polyura clitarchus
- Polyura cognatus
- Polyura dehanii
- Polyura delphis
- Polyura dolon
- Polyura ehmckei
- Polyura epigenes
- Polyura eudamippus
- Polyura galaxia
- Polyura gamma
- Polyura gilolensis
- Polyura hebe
- Polyura jalysus
- Polyura jupiter
- Polyura kahldeni
- Polyura mafugensis
- Polyura moori
- Polyura narcaea
- Polyura narcaeus
- Polyura nepenthes
- Polyura paphianus
- Polyura pleione
- Polyura posidonius
- Polyura pyrrhus
- Polyura sacco
- Polyura schreiber
- Polyura weismanni
- Polyura zoolina