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Subspecies Asterocampa clyton clyton

Tawny emperor - Asterocampa clyton - female

Tawny emperor butterfly - Asterocampa clyton

Pennsylvania Butterfly - Asterocampa clyton

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Classification

Kingdom Animalia (Animals)

Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)

Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)

Class Insecta (Insects)

Order Lepidoptera (Butterflies and Moths)

Superfamily Papilionoidea (Butterflies and Skippers)

Family Nymphalidae (Brush-footed Butterflies)

Subfamily Apaturinae (Emperors)

Tribe Apaturini

Genus Asterocampa

Species clyton (Tawny Emperor - Hodges#4562.1)

Subspecies clyton (Asterocampa clyton clyton)

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Apatura clyton Boisduval & Le Conte, [1835]. Type locality: Savannah River, Burke County, Georgia

Apatura proserpina Scudder, 1868. Type locality: Iowa (somewhere near New Jefferson)

Apatura clyton ocellata W.H. Edwards, 1876. Type locality: Coalburgh, Kanawha County, West Virginia

Range

eastern United States, southern Ontario Canada; except, where other subspecies occur; intergrades with other subspecies where they meet.

Contributed by David J. Ferguson on 9 October, 2012 - 9:34pm

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