Chitoria ulupi
| Tawny Emperor | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Nymphalidae |
| Subfamily: | Apaturinae[1] |
| Genus: | Chitoria |
| Species: | C. ulupi |
| Binomial name | |
| Chitoria ulupi (Doherty, 1889) | |
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The Tawny Emperor (Chitoria ulupi) is a species of Nymphalid butterfly found in tropical Asia.
Subspecies
- Chitoria ulupi ulupi (Assam, Manipur, Burma)
- Chitoria ulupi dubernardi (Oberthür) (western China: Yunnan)
- Chitoria ulupi arakii (Naritomi) (Taiwan)
- Chitoria ulupi kalaurica Tytler, 1926 (Burma)
- Chitoria ulupi fulva Leech, 1891 (Korea, eastern China, Sichuan)
- Chitoria ulupi tong Yoshino, 1997 (Guanxi)
References
- ↑ Zhang M, Cao T, Zhang R, Guo Y, Duan Y, Ma E. 2007. Phylogeny of Apaturinae butterflies (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae) based on mitochondrial cytochrome oxidase I gene. J. Genet. Genomics 34 (9): 812-23
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