Charaxes (Polyura) alphius, or Staudinger's nawab, is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It was described by Otto Staudinger in 1886. It is found on Timor and Sulawesi near the Wallace Line.Seitz, A., 1912-1927. Die Indo-Australien Tagfalter Grossschmetterlinge Erde 9 Polyura alphius has been considered a subspecies of Polyura athamas Polyura athamas alphius.
Subspecies Charaxes alphius alphius (Timor) Charaxes alphius piepersianus (Martin, 1924) (southern Sulawesi)
References
External links Polyura Billberg, 1820 at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms