Biology:Dynastor napoleon
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Nymphalidae |
| Genus: | Dynastor |
| Species: | D. napoleon
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| Dynastor napoleon Doubleday, 1849[1]
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Dynastor napoleon is a species of nymphalid butterfly native to Brazil.
Its wingspan is about 125 mm. Dynastor napoleon is a large butterfly with a wingspan of with a humped costal margin on the forewings. The upperside of the wings is brown, with the forewings adorned with a white band extending from the midpoint of the costal margin to the outer corner, and a thin orange border along the costal margin and halfway up the outer margin from the apex. The hindwings are brown with a very broad orange-yellow border. The underside is golden beige, with the forewings a large part of the wing from the inner edge being dark brown to black.[2] [3]
The larvae feed on the bromeliads Aechmea nudicaulis and pineapple (Ananas comosus).The imago is crepuscular.
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- ↑ Dynastor at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
- ↑ Fruhstorfer, H., 1913. In A. Seitz (editor), Macrolepidoptera of the World, vol. 5: 333–356. Stuttgart: Alfred Kernen.
- ↑ Smart, P., 1976 The Illustrated Encyclopedia of the Butterfly World in Color. London, Salamander:Encyclopedie des papillons. Lausanne, Elsevier Sequoia (French language edition) ISBN 9780948427046 ISBN 0600313816
Wikidata ☰ Q3042071 entry
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