Graphium glycerion
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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.[4] It is however treated as a "good species" by Koiwaya.[5] 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
- ^ Gray, George Robert (1831). "Descriptions of eight new species of Indian Butterflies, (Papilio, Lin.) from the collection of General Hardwicke". In Gray, John Edward (ed.). The Zoological Miscellany. London: Treuttei, Wurtz and Co. p. 32.
- ^ Moore, Frederic (1888). "Pazala, n. g.". Heterocera (continued): (Pyralidæ, Crambidæ, Geometridæ, Tortricidæ, Tineidæ). Descriptions of New Indian Lepidopterous Insects. Vol. 3. London: Taylor and Francis. p. 283.
- ^ 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 – via Biodiversity Heritage Library.
- ^ 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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External links
- Butterfly Corner — Images from Naturhistorisches Museum Wien