Charaxes agraria

Anomalous nawab
Anomalous Nawab, on Jatropha species in Hyderabad
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Nymphalidae
Genus: Charaxes[1][2]
Species: C. agraria
Binomial name
Charaxes agraria
Synonyms
  • Polyura agraria
  • Polyura athamas agraria

The anomalous nawab (Charaxes agraria) is a butterfly found in Asia that belongs to the rajahs and nawabs group, that is, the Charaxinae group of the brush-footed butterflies family. The name is based on their resemblance to the common nawab Charaxes athamas, which was described prior to the discovery of the species.

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: 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.

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