Apatura iris

Purple emperor
Male
Both images are of the same male
Bernwood Forest, Oxfordshire
Scientific classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Nymphalidae
Genus: Apatura
Species:
A. iris
Binomial name
Apatura iris
Synonyms
  • Papilio iris Linnaeus, 1758
  • Apatura suspirans (Poda, 1761)
  • Apatura junonia (Borkhausen, 1788)
  • Papilio rubescens Esper, 1781
  • Apatura iris f. jole (Denis & Schiffermüller, 1775)
  • Apatura pallas Leech, 1890
  • Apatura iris f. chrysina Oberthür, 1909
  • Papilio beroe Fabricius, 1793
  • Apatura iris recidiva Stichel, [1909]

Apatura iris, the purple emperor, is a Palearctic butterfly of the family Nymphalidae.

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