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Sasakia charonda, the Japanese emperor or great purple emperor, is a species of butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It is native to Japan (from Hokkaidō to Kyūshū), the Korean Peninsula, China, northern Taiwan and northern Vietnam. Its wingspan averages 50 mm (2.0 in) for males, and 65 mm (2.6 in) for females.
Males have a wingspan of 70–80 millimetres (2.8–3.1 in), and have a purple-blue sheen caused by iridescence that the slightly larger (80–92 mm) females lack. [2] The larvae (caterpillars) are green with white and yellow markings, and have two large "horns" at the anterior end and a smaller one at the posterior.
Apatura ilia ([Denis and Schiffermüller], 1775) – lesser purple emperor; Apatura iris (Linnaeus, 1758) – purple emperor; Apatura laverna Leech, 1893; Apatura metis Freyer, 1829 – Freyer's purple emperor; Moved to genus Chitoria: Apatura fasciola (Leech, 1890) now in Chitoria fasciola; Apatura sordida (Moore, 1865) – sordid emperor now ...
Doxocopa agathina, the agathina emperor, is a species of butterfly of the family Nymphalidae. It is found in the Guyanas , northern Brazil , and the Amazon region . It is also called the purple emperor but this name may also refer to the European butterfly Apatura iris .
Freyer's purple emperor has dark wings with reddish and yellow bands. The wings of the male are bluish purple if seen from the right angle. In appearance, it resembles Apatura ilia. However, it differs significantly from it by a stepped protrusion in the middle of the outer edge of the postdiscal band of the hindwings.
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.
Mimathyma chevana (Moore, [1865]) – sergeant emperor Mimathyma nycteis (Ménétriès, 1859) (Amurland, Korea, northeast China) Mimathyma schrenckii (Ménétriès, 1858) – Schrenck's emperor (Amurland, Korea, northeast China)
Mimathyma ambica, the Indian purple emperor, is a species of nymphalid butterfly found in Asia. Description. In Buxa Tiger Reserve, West Bengal, India . Male