Apatura iris

"Purple emperor" redirects here. For the butterfly in the genus Doxocopa, see Doxocopa agathina.
For the book by James Herbert Brennan, see The Purple Emperor (book).

Purple emperor
Male
Both images are of the same male
Bernwood Forest, Oxfordshire
Scientific classification Edit this 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.

  1. ^ Apatura at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms