Polyura Schreiber

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. The Blue Nawab (Polyura schreiber) is a butterfly species found in tropical Asia. It belongs to the Charaxinae (Rajahs and Nawabs) in the brush-footed butterfly family (Nymphalidae). It occurs from South India and Assam through Myanmar, Tenasserim and Southeast Asia to southern China and to Java, Indonesia.Male has upperside ground colour black, glossed slightly with dull indigo-blue, or, in some specimens, light green at the base of the wings. Fore and hind wings with a broad white discal bar from interspace 4 in fore wing to just below the apex of the median vein in the hind wing, narrowing on the latter wing to a point. This bar has, on the outer side on both fore and hind wings, an irregular border of small-blue, which is narrowest anteriorly and broadens posteriorly respectively on both fore and hind wings.