Charaxes agrarius

Charaxes agrarius,[4] the anomalous nawab,[5][6] is a butterfly found in Asia that belongs to the rajahs and nawabs group, that is, the Charaxinae subfamily of the brush-footed butterflies family.[5][6] The name is based on their resemblance to the common nawab (Polyura athamas), which was described before the discovery of this species.

Anomalous nawab
Dorsal view
Ventral view, Karnataka, India
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Arthropoda
Class:
Insecta
Order:
Lepidoptera
Family:
Nymphalidae
Genus:
Charaxes[1][2]
Species:
C. agrarius[3]
Binomial name
Charaxes agrarius
Synonyms
  • Charaxes agraria
  • Polyura agraria
  • Polyura athamas agraria

Description
For a key to the terms used, see Glossary of entomology terms.

Male and female: Both wings with the yellow discal band uniformly narrower, the outer edge of the band more irregular, undulated, the portions between the medians being each somewhat incurved. Forewing with a large quadrate lower submarginal spot and two small superposed apical spots. Hindwing with yellowish-white rounded submarginal spots, the upper minute, the lower three large and dento-lunate; marginal ochreous lunules not present in the male, very indistinct in female, the lower bluish-grey streaks only present in male. Underside similar to Polyura athamas, but paler.

— Frederic Moore, Lepidoptera Indica: Volume II[7]

See also

Footnotes
  1. Müller, C. J.; Wahlberg, N.; Beheregaray, L. B. (2010). "'After Africa': the evolutionary history and systematics of the genus Charaxes Ochsenheimer (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae) in the Indo-Pacific region". Biological Journal of the Linnean Society. 100 (2): 457–481. doi:10.1111/j.1095-8312.2010.01426.x.
  2. Aduse-Poku, K.; Vingerhoedt, E.; Wahlberg, N. (2009). "Out-of-Africa again: a phylogenetic hypothesis of the genus Charaxes (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae) based on five gene regions". Molecular Phylogenetics & Evolution. 53 (2): 463–78. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2009.06.021. PMID 19580878.
  3. Savela, Markku (December 15, 2018). "P. a. agrarius (Swinhoe, 1887)". Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms. Retrieved April 18, 2020.
  4. Swinhoe, Charles (1887). "On the Lepidoptera of Mhow, in Central India". Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. London: 425.
  5. Kehimkar, Isaac (2016). Butterflies of India (2016 ed.). Mumbai: Bombay Natural History Society. ISBN 9789384678012.
  6. Varshney, R. K.; Smetacek, Peter (2015). A Synoptic Catalogue of the Butterflies of India. New Delhi: Butterfly Research Centre, Bhimtal & Indinov Publishing. p. 155. doi:10.13140/RG.2.1.3966.2164. ISBN 978-81-929826-4-9.
  7. One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a work now in the public domain: Moore, Frederic (1893–1896). Lepidoptera Indica: Volume II. London: Lovell Reeve and Co. pp. 257–259.

References


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