Graphium glycerion

Graphium glycerion
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Papilionidae
Genus:	Graphium
Species:	G. glycerion
Binomial name
	Graphium glycerion; (Gray, 1831)
Synonyms
	Papilio glycerion Gray, 1831; Pazala glycerion glycerion; Papilio glycerion caschmirensis Rothschild, 1895; Pazala glycerion phangana Okano, 1986;

Graphium glycerion, the spectacle swordtail, is a species of butterfly found in the Indomalayan ecozone (northern India, China, Thailand, Laos and northern Vietnam).

Subspecies

G. g glycerion (Nepal, Sikkim, Assam)
G. g. caschmirensis (Rothschild, 1895) (north-western India)
G. g. kimurai Murayama, 1982 (northern Thailand)
G. g. phangana (Okano, 1986) (northern Thailand)

Taxonomy

It may be a synonym of Graphium mandarinus Collins & Morris.^[2] It is however treated as a "good species" by Koiwaya.^[3] A further problem is that the name glycerion is permanently invalid as a junior primary homonym of Papilio glycerion Borkhausen, 1788.

Graphium glycerion is very little known and as with Graphium mandarinus, G. tamerlanus, G. phidias and G. olbrechtsi few specimens exist.

References

^ Graphium, funet.fi
^ Collins, N. Mark; Morris, Michael G. (1985). Threatened Swallowtail Butterflies of the World: The IUCN Red Data Book. Gland & Cambridge: IUCN. ISBN 978-2-88032-603-6.
^ Koiwaya, S. (1993) Descriptions of Three New Genera, Eleven New Species and Seven New Subspecies of Butterflies from China. Studies of Chinese Butterflies.

External links

Butterfly Corner — Images from Naturhistorisches Museum Wien

[1] Graphium, funet.fi

[2] Collins, N. Mark; Morris, Michael G. (1985). Threatened Swallowtail Butterflies of the World: The IUCN Red Data Book. Gland & Cambridge: IUCN. ISBN 978-2-88032-603-6.

[3] Koiwaya, S. (1993) Descriptions of Three New Genera, Eleven New Species and Seven New Subspecies of Butterflies from China. Studies of Chinese Butterflies.

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