Graphium illyris

Graphium illyris
	Top view
	Bottom view - MHNT
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Papilionidae
Genus:	Graphium
Species:	G. illyris
Binomial name
	Graphium illyris; (Hewitson, 1873)
Synonyms
	Papilio illyris Hewitson, 1873; Papilio illyris f. stictica Le Cerf, 1924; Papilio (Cosmodesmus) illyris ab. addenda Dufrane, 1946; Papilio illyris flavisparsus Fruhstorfer, 1903; Papilio illyris hamatus Joicey & Talbot, 1918;

Graphium illyris, the cream-banded swordtail, is a forest butterfly of the swallowtail family (Papilionidae). It is native to the Afrotropic ecozone.

Habitat

Tropical and subtropical ecoregions.

Status and biology

It is an uncommon to rare species and is seasonal in West Africa (with adults on wing mainly in February and March). Males mud-puddle, and are attracted to rotten fish as well as perspiration on humans.^[2]

Subspecies

G. i. illyris (Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, C.Ghana)
G. i. flavisparsus (Fruhstorfer, 1903) (Equatorial Guinea)
G. i. girardeaui (Guilbot & Plantrou, 1978) (Central African Republic)
G. i. hamatus (Joicey & Talbot, 1918) (Nigeria, Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Congo, Congo Republic, Tanzania)

References

^ Graphium, Site of Markku Savela
^ Afrotropical Butterflies: File C – Papilionidae - Tribe Leptocercini

Sources

Guilbot, R. and Plantrou, J. (1978). Note sur Graphium illyris (Hewitson) et revision systematique de I'espece. Bulletin de la Societe Entomologique de France 83: 68-73.
Smith, C.R. & Vane-Wright, R.I. 2001 A review of the Afrotropical species of the genus Graphium (Lepidoptera: Rhopalocera: Papilionidae) Bull. Nat. Hist. Mus. Ent. Ser. 70 (2): 503-719

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[funet-1] Graphium, Site of Markku Savela

[ATBUT-2] Afrotropical Butterflies: File C – Papilionidae - Tribe Leptocercini

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