Polyura jupiter is a butterfly of the family Nymphalidae. It is found in Indonesia and surrounding islands.
The upper side is brown, very largely marked with white, with forewings in a triangle from the costal margin and in the form of spots, including small ones in a submarginal line, and on the hindwings in a broad triangle, from the costal edge to the anal angle marked by an orange spot. Walter Rothschild and Karl Jordan (1900) provide a full description.Walter Rothschild and Karl Jordan — A monograph of Charaxes and the allied prionopterous genera. Novitates Zoologicae 7:281-524. (1900
The larvae feed on Albizia stipulata.
Subspecies Polyura jupiter jupiter (western Papua) Polyura jupiter kronos (Honrath, 1888) (Bismarck Archipelago) Polyura jupiter admiralitatis (Rothschild, 1915) (Admiralty Islands) Polyura jupiter attila (Grose-Smith, 1889) (Guadalcanal) Polyura jupiter keianus (Rothschild & Jordan, 1897) (Key) Polyura jupiter seitzi (Rothschild, 1897) (Tanimbar) Polyura jupiter watubela (Rothschild, 1903) (Watubela) Taxonomy Currently a subspecies of Polyura pyrrhus Pollyura pyrrhus ssp. jupiter Butler, 1869
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