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Charaxes eurialus

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Charaxes eurialus
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Nymphalidae
Genus: Charaxes
Species:
C. eurialus
Binomial name
Charaxes eurialus
Cramer, 1779

Charaxes eurialus is a butterfly of the family Nymphalidae.[1] It is found on Ambon Island, Serang and Saparua in Indonesia.

The wingspan is about 50 mm. It is a large dark brown, almost black butterfly with concave forewings decorated with a yellow transverse band and hindwings with a tail, a white marginal band, a submarginal line of black spots pupillated with white and then a blue band.

References

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  1. ^ "Charaxes Ochsenheimer, 1816" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms