"Purple emperor" redirects here. For the butterfly in the genus
Doxocopa, see
Doxocopa agathina.
| Purple emperor
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| Male
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Both images are of the same male
Bernwood Forest, Oxfordshire
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| Scientific classification
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| Kingdom:
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Animalia
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| Phylum:
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Arthropoda
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| Class:
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Insecta
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| Order:
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Lepidoptera
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| Family:
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Nymphalidae
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| Genus:
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Apatura
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| Species:
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A. iris
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| Binomial name
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Apatura iris
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| Synonyms
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- 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]
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Apatura iris, the purple emperor, is a Palearctic butterfly of the family Nymphalidae.