Polyura epigenes

Polyura epigenes
	In Henley Grose-Smith's Rhopalocera Exotica
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Nymphalidae
Genus:	Charaxes
Species:	C. epigenes
Binomial name
	Charaxes epigenes; (Godman & Salvin, 1888)
Synonyms
	Polyura epigenes; Charaxes (Eulepsis) epigenes f. monochromus Niepelt, 1914;

Charaxes (Polyura) epigenes is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It was described by Frederick DuCane Godman and Osbert Salvin in 1888. It is endemic to the Solomon Islands.^[2]

Subspecies

C. e. epigenes (Tulagi, Guadalcanal)
C. e. monochroma (Niepelt, 1914) (Bougainville, Shorthlan Island, Choiseul Island, Vella Lavella, Rendova, Santa Isabel)

^ Godman & Salvin, 1888 New species of Butterflies collected by Mr. C. M. Woodford in the Solomon Islands Annals and Magazine of Natural History (6) 1 (2): 90-101, (3): 209-214
^ Seitz, A., 1912-1927. Die Indo-Australien Tagfalter Grossschmetterlinge Erde 9

Polyura Billberg, 1820 at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms

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