''Polyura arja'', the pallid nawab, is a butterfly belonging to the rajahs and nawabs group, that is, the
Charaxinae
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The Charaxinae, the leafwings, are a nymphalid subfamily of butterflies that includes about 400 species, inhabiting mainly the tropics, although some species extend into temperate regions in North America, Europe, China, and southern ...
subfamily of the
brush-footed butterflies
The Nymphalidae are the largest family of butterflies, with more than 6,000 species distributed throughout most of the world. Belonging to the superfamily Papilionoidea, they are usually medium-sized to large butterflies. Most species have a redu ...
family.
Subspecies
*''Polyura arja arja''
Yutaka
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Description
''Polyura arja'' has a wingspan of . The outer edge of the forewings is concave and the hindwings show two short blue tails. The upperside of the wings is brown with a broad white or anteriorly pale green band from the inner edge of the forewing to the costal edge of the hindwings, one or two small white spots at the apex of the forewings and a continuous row of white or pale yellow spots running along the outer submargin of the hindwings. The underside of the wings is lighter brown with a quite similar pattern. The body is dark brown.["Taxonomy and phylogeny of the genus Polyura"]
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Distribution
This species can be found in north-east India
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(Sikkim
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to Assam
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), Burma
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, Thailand
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and Indochina
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.["''Polyura'' Billberg, 1820"]
at Markku Savela's ''Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms''
See also
*List of butterflies of India
The following is a list of the butterflies of India.
India has extremely diverse terrain, climate and vegetation, which comprises extremes of heat cold, desert and jungle, of low-lying plains and the highest mountains, of dryness and dampness, i ...
*List of butterflies of India (Nymphalidae)
This is a list of the butterflies of India belonging to the family Nymphalidae and an index to the species articles. This forms part of the full List of butterflies of India.
Danainae (26 spp)
See List of butterflies of India (Danainae).
Morp ...
Bibliography
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References
Polyura
Butterflies of Asia
Butterflies of Indochina
Taxa named by Baron Cajetan von Felder
Taxa named by Rudolf Felder
Butterflies described in 1867
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