Polyura caphontis: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Class
- Insecta
- Order
- Lepidoptera
- Family
- Nymphalidae
- Genus
- Polyura
- Species
- Polyura caphontis
- Scientific Name
- Polyura caphontis
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Polyura caphontis
Charaxes (Polyura) caphontis is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It was described by William Chapman Hewitson in 1863. It is endemic to Fiji. The only species of the genus [Eriboea (Polyura pars]with a reddish-brown double-row on the upper surface of the hindwings. The under surface of the male is dark chestnut brown, of the female greyish-brown. The markings of the upper surface are repeated, except the greenish band of the hindwings, which, moreover, in the female consists only of a thin line on the upper surface. Flying time according to Woodford in November, the rainy period, in the Fidji Islands. According to Rothschild and Jordan there are also males with a yellowish median band being distinctly pronounced also on the under surface of the hindwing
...Polyura caphontis in languages:
- English
- Fijian Emperor
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Parent Taxon
Sibling 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
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- Polyura dolon
- Polyura ehmckei
- Polyura epigenes
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- Polyura hebe
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- 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