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Apaturinae
Asterocampa celtis
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Nymphalidae
Subfamily: Apaturinae
Boisduval, 1840

The Apaturinae are a subfamily of butterflies that includes many species commonly called emperors.

Strikingly-coloured, with cryptic underwing. A distinguishing character of the subfamily is the green proboscis. [1]

  • Doxocopa agathina with green proboscis

    Doxocopa agathina with green proboscis

Apaturinae consists of 20 genera and shows separate distributions and uncommon host–plant associations. Most genera of this subfamily are found throughout South-East Asia and Africa, whereas the genera Doxocopa and Asterocampa are spread mainly in South America and North America.[2]

  1. ^ "NYMPHALIDAE - NYMPHALID BUTTERFLIES". FAUNA Paraguay.
  2. ^ Ohshima, I., Tanikawa-Dodo, Y., Saigusa, T., Nishiyama, T., Kitani, M., Hasebe, M., & Mohri, H. (2010). Phylogeny, biogeography, and host–plant association in the subfamily Apaturinae (Insecta: Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae) inferred from eight nuclear and seven mitochondrial genes. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 57(3), 1026-1036. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2010.09.018