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Papilio nephelus Boisduval, 1836

Самец Papilio nephelus

Taxonomy

class Insecta → subclass Pterygota → infraclass Neoptera → superorder Holometabola → order Lepidoptera → superfamily Papilionoidea → family Papilionidae → subfamily Papilioninae → tribe Papilionini → genus Papilio → subgenus Princeps → species Papilio nephelus

Species name(s)

Papilio (Princeps) nephelus Boisduval, 1836 = Menelaides nephelus = Papilio uranus Weymer 1885 = Papilio nubilus Staudinger 1895 = Papilio chaon rileyi Fruhstorfer , 1913 = Papilio chaon dispensator Fruhstorfer, 1908 = Papilio chaon duketius Fruhstorfer, 1908 = Papilio chaon chaonidis Niepelt, 1914 = Papilio chaon ducenarius Fruhstorfer, 1908 = Papilio chaon leucantha Fruhstorfer, 1908 = Papilio chaon chaonulus Fruhstorfer, 1902 = Papilio chaon durius Fruhstorfer, 1908.

Yellow Helen

urn:lsid:insecta.pro:taxonomy:15209

Expansion

Zoogeographical regions

Indo-Malayan.

Имаго Papilio nephelus

Detailed information with references

Habitus and Differences from alike species

  • wingspan 100-125 mm. Another black and white Helen, UpH bears a creamy-white discal patch of four or five spot in spaces 3 or 4 to 7. Subsp. chaon UpF lacks of white markings while annulus with pale subapical markings and sunatus usually with an oblique white subapical band, UpH spot in space 3 usually absent in chaon, rather small in annulus and large in sunatus. [144]. Svetlana Shchavelina.

Larva food plants

  • Citrus spp. , Clausena harmandiana, Glycosmis pentaphylla, Toddalia asiatica, Zanthoxylum limonella. [144]. Svetlana Shchavelina.

Subspecies Papilio nephelus

Authors

Initial species uploading to the site: Peter Khramov.

Photos: Vasiliy Feoktistov.

Text data: Svetlana Shchavelina.

Main characteristics formalization: Peter Khramov.

References

Comments

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16.01.2011 16:39, Dmitriy Pozhogin

subspecies
nephelus Java
sunatus Corbet, 1940 Peninsular Malaya
annulus Pendlebury, 1936 Peninsular Malaya
chaon Westwood, 1844 Orissa, Nepal - Assam, N.Burma
ducenarius Fruhstorfer, 1908 S.Burma
chaonulus Fruhstorfer S.China, Haina, Taiwan
albolineatus Forbes Sumatra, Borneo
siporanus Hagan Menawai Is
tellonus Fruhstorfer Batu Is.
uranus Weymer Nias
rileyi Fruhstorfer, 1913

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