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Apatura iris, the purple emperor, is a Palearctic butterfly of the family Nymphalidae. Description. Adults have dark brown wings with white bands and spots, and a ...
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 ...
Apatura vacana Oberthür, 1914; Chlorippe vacuna f. ... It is also called the purple emperor but this name may also refer to the European butterfly Apatura iris.
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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.
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).
Nymphalidae in Charles Oberthür's Études d'entomologie: Lépidoptères de Chine (1876). This is a list of the butterflies of China belonging to the family Nymphalidae and an index to the species articles.