EditorialTwo-tailed pasha or foxy emperor, Charaxes jasius, with pupa and caterpillar 1, and Cramer's eighty-eight butterfly, Diaethria clymena 2. Nymphale jasius, Nymphale clymene. Handcoloured steel engraving by du Casse after an illustration by Adolph Fries ...
EditorialTwo-tailed pasha, Charaxes jasius 1 and purple emperor, Apatura iris 2, and tulip. Handcoloured lithograph from Musee du Naturaliste dedie a la Jeunesse, Histoire des Papillons, Hippolyte and Polydor Pauquet, Paris, 1833.
EditorialCharaxes, Print, The rajah and pasha butterflies, also known as emperors in Africa and Australia, (genus Charaxes) make up the huge type genus of the brush-footed butterfly subfamily Charaxinae, or leafwing butterflies. They belong to the tribe Charaxi...
EditorialTwo-tailed pasha or foxy emperor, Charaxes jasius, dorsal and ventral views. Handcoloured steel engraving by the Pauquet brothers after an illustration by Alexis Nicolas Noel from Hippolyte Lucas' Natural History of European Butterflies, Histoire Natur...
EditorialTwo-tailed pasha butterfly, Charaxes jasius 1, Drury's hairstreak, Strymon acis 2, and silver-banded hairstreak, Chlorostrymon simaethis. Handcoloured lithograph from John O. Westwood's new edition of Dru Drury's "Illustrations of Exotic Entomology," B...