Apatura

Taxobox
name = Apaturina

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image_width = 250px
image_caption = Lesser Purple Emperor
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Arthropoda
classis = Insecta
ordo = Lepidoptera
divisio = Rhopalocera
familia = Nymphalidae
subfamilia = Apaturinae
genus = "Apatura"
genus_authority = Fabricius, 1807
subdivision_ranks = Species
subdivision =
* "Apatura ambica"
* "Apatura chevana"
* "Apatura fasciola"
* "Apatura ilia" - Lesser Purple Emperor
* "Apatura iris" - Purple Emperor
* "Apatura laverna"
* "Apatura metis" - Freyer's purple emperor
* "Apatura nycteis"
* "Apatura schrenckii"
* "Apatura sordida"
* "Apatura ulupi"
* "Apatura vietnamica"

Apatura is a genus of butterflies known as the "Emperors".

External links

* [http://www.nic.funet.fi/pub/sci/bio/life/insecta/lepidoptera/ditrysia/papilionoidea/nymphalidae/apaturinae/apatura/index.html Apatura] at funit.fi