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Atrophaneura nox

species of insect

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJan 14, 2025
Entity authorityQ1763372 ↗
Source-derived summary

Atrophaneura nox, the Malayan batwing, is a papilionid butterfly found in Java, northern Borneo and Peninsular Malaysia.

Description

The species is black with blue metallic reflections. On the forewings the veins are shaded white. There are red hairs on the thorax. The wingspan is 9–11 cm. Females are larger than males.

Subspecies

A. n. nox Java

A. n. noctis (Hewitson, 1859) north Borneo

A. n. erebus (Wallace, 1865) Peninsular Malaya

A. n.

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The public source identifies “Atrophaneura nox” as species of insect. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Atrophaneura, species and insect.

Editorial reviewA sound reference starting point where classification, measurement and the date of the underlying evidence remain visible. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1859, 1865—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Atrophaneura, species and insect providing the first useful test.
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Datasets, specimens, observations and peer-reviewed methods provide the appropriate test for the technical claims summarized here. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jan 14, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q1763372. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1859 and 1865.

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This entry incorporates text from “Atrophaneura nox” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.