Graphium glycerion
| Graphium glycerion | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Papilionidae |
| Genus: | Graphium |
| Species: | G. glycerion |
| Binomial name | |
| Graphium glycerion (Gray, 1831)[1] | |
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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.[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.
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External links
- Butterfly Corner Images from Naturhistorisches Museum Wien
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