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Apatura iris is widely distributed in dense, broadleaved woodlands throughout Europe including southern Britain, and across the Palearctic to central and western China. [ 2 ] [ 5 ] Different subspecies are found across the region (see below).
Apatura is a genus of butterflies commonly known as the emperors. Purple emperors ( Apatura iris ) and lesser purple emperors ( Apatura ilia ) sucking moisture from the body of a dead common frog ( Rana temporaria ), Ukraine
A. ilia Schiff. ( = Pap. iris Esp.) (50c) is characterized by the distal margin of the forewing being obtusely angulate below the apex; in the anal area of this wing there is an ocellus ringed with yellowish, and the median band of the hindwing has no tooth-like projection on the outer side; the male with violet gloss, the female dull black- brown or grey-brown, the bands and spots pure white ...
Ian Robert Penicuick Heslop (June 1904 – 2 June 1970) was a British naturalist, lepidopterologist and marksman.He is particularly known for his studies of the butterfly Apatura iris (purple emperor), and for his discovery of the Nigerian subspecies of the pygmy hippopotamus, named Choeropsis liberiensis heslopi after him.
Lesser purple emperor, Apatura ilia (Denis & Schiffermüller 1775) Purple emperor, Apatura iris (Linnaeus, 1758) Freyer's purple emperor, Apatura metis Freyer, 1829
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Apatura vacana Oberthür, 1914 ... It is also called the purple emperor but this name may also refer to the European butterfly Apatura iris. ... Wikipedia® is a ...
Comment The Emperors Butterflies (Apatura genus) often eat a moisture from unusual sources: rotten fruit, wet clay and even a dead frog. It is feature of emperors butterflies. This photo show Purple Emperors (Apatura iris) (has wing with a white triangle strip) and Lesser Purple Emperors (Apatura ilia) (has beige wing).