Biology:Polyura gamma

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Short description: Species of butterfly


Polyura gamma
Polyura gamma (male)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Arthropoda
Class:
Insecta
Order:
Lepidoptera
Family:
Nymphalidae
Genus:
Charaxes
Species:
C. gamma
Binomial name
Charaxes gamma
(Lathy, 1898)[1]
Synonyms
  • Polyura gamma
  • Eriboea aristophanes Fruhstorfer, 1913

Charaxes (Polyura) gamma is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It was described by Percy Ireland Lathy in 1898. It is endemic to New Caledonia.[2]

Description

E. gamma Lathy, is the smallest Eriboea. Above blackish-brown with a short narrow cream-coloured median band and some indistinct, diffuse submarginal spots. Under surface with bands of vandyke-brown and blackish colour and shades. Only two males known, now in the British Museum. Patria probably New Caledonia or the New Hebrides.[3]

References

  1. ↑ Lathy, 1898 A new species of Charaxes The Entomologist 31: 226-227
  2. ↑ Seitz, A., 1912-1927. Die Indo-Australien Tagfalter Grossschmetterlinge Erde 9
  3. ↑ Hans Fruhstorfer in Seitz, A., 1912–1927. Die Indo-Australien Tagfalter Grossschmetterlinge Erde 9

Data related to Polyura gamma at Wikispecies

Wikidata ☰ Q3395864 entry




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