Chitoria ulupi

Chitoria ulupi
Tawny Emperor
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)
Synonyms
  • Potamis ulupi Doherty, 1889
  • Apatura ulupi
  • Apatura kalaurica Tytler, 1926
  • Apatura fulva Leech, 1891

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

  1. ^ 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