Polyura caphontis

Charaxes (Polyura) caphontis is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It was described by William Chapman Hewitson in 1863. It is endemic to Fiji.[2]

Polyura caphontis
In Hewitson's Illustrations of New Species of Exotic Butterflies
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Phylum:
Class:
Order:
Family:
Genus:
Species:
C. caphontis
Binomial name
Charaxes caphontis
(Hewitson, 1863)[1]
Synonyms
  • Polyura caphontis

Subspecies

  • C. c. caphontis (Viti Levu Island, Ovalu Island, Taveuni Island)
  • C. c. nambavatua Smiles, 1982 (Vanua Mbbalavu Island)

References

  1. Hewitson, 1863 Illustrations of New Species of Exotic Butterflies Selected Chiefly from the Collections of W. Wilson Saunders and William C. Hewitson
  2. Seitz, A., 1912-1927. Die Indo-Australien Tagfalter Grossschmetterlinge Erde 9


This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.