Polyura nepenthes

Polyura nepenthes
	Polyura nepenthes nepenthes male verso.
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Nymphalidae
Subfamily:	Charaxinae
Tribe:	Charaxini
Genus:	Polyura
Species:	P. nepenthes
Binomial name
	Polyura nepenthes; (Grose-Smith, 1883)
Synonyms
	Charaxes nepenthes Grose-Smith, 1883; Charaxes (Polyura) nepenthes; Eriboea nepenthes fugator Fruhstorfer, 1914; Eriboea nepenthes kiangsiensis Rousseau-Decelle, 1938;

Polyura nepenthes is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae.^[2] It was described by Henley Grose-Smith in 1883. It is found in the Indomalayan realm.^[3]

Subspecies

The larva feeds on Leguminosae.

^ Grose-Smith, 1883 "Descriptions of three new species of Charaxes" Entomologist's Monthly Magazine 20: 57-58
^ Beccaloni, G.; Scoble, M.; Kitching, I.; Simonsen, T.; Robinson, G.; Pitkin, B.; Hine, A.; Lyal, C., eds. (2003). "Polyura nepenthes". The Global Lepidoptera Names Index. Natural History Museum.
^ Seitz, A., 1912-1927. Die Indo-Australien Tagfalter Grossschmetterlinge Erde 9

Polyura Billberg, 1820 at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms

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