Polyura

for the monotypic genus of plants, see Polyura geminata

Polyura is a subgenus of butterflies also referred to as Nawab butterflies^[1]^[2] and belonging to the brush-footed butterfly subfamily Charaxinae, or leafwing butterflies. Like the large and conspicuous forest queens (subgenus Euxanthe), they belong to the genus Charaxes, unique genus of the tribe Charaxini.^[3]^[4]

^ Billberg, Gustaf Johan (1820). Enumeratio insectorum in Museo. p. 79. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.49763.
^ Smiles, Robert L. (1982). "The taxonomy and phylogeny of the genus Polyura Billberg (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae)". Bull. Br. Mus. (Nat. Hist.) Entomol. 44 (3): 115–237.
^ Aduse-Poku, Kwaku; Vingerhoedt, Eric; Wahlberg, Niklas (2009). "Out-of-Africa again: A phylogenetic hypothesis of the genus Charaxes (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae) based on five gene regions". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 53 (2): 463–478. Bibcode:2009MolPE..53..463A. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2009.06.021. PMID 19580878.
^ Toussaint, Emmanuel F.A.; Morinière, Jérôme; Müller, Chris J.; Kunte, Krushnamegh; Turlin, Bernard; Hausmann, Axel; Balke, Michael (2015). "Comparative molecular species delimitation in the charismatic Nawab butterflies (Nymphalidae, Charaxinae, Polyura)". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 91: 194–209. Bibcode:2015MolPE..91..194T. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2015.05.015. PMID 26021440.