Graphium megarus (Westwood, 1844)

Taxonomy
class Insecta → subclass Pterygota → infraclass Neoptera → superorder Holometabola → order Lepidoptera → superfamily Papilionoidea → family Papilionidae → subfamily Papilioninae → tribe Leptocircini → genus Graphium → subgenus Paranticopsis → species Graphium megarus
Species name(s)
Graphium (Paranticopsis) megarus (Westwood, 1844) = Papilio megarus Westwood, 1844 = Paranticopsis megarus = Papilio similis Lathy, 1899 = Papilio megarus sagittiger Fruhstorfer, 1901 = Papilio megarus fleximacula Rothschild, 1895 = Papilio megarus tistaensis Bang-Haas, 1937 = Paranticopsis megarus tiomanensis Eliot 1978 = Papilio megarus martinus Fruhstorfer, 1902 = Papilio megarus mendicus Fruhstorfer, 1902 = Papilio megarus megapenthes Fruhstorfer, 1902.
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Expansion
Zoogeographical regions
Indo-Malayan.

Detailed information with references
Habitus and Differences from alike species
- Graphium megarus megapenthes(Fruhstorfer, 1902): wingspan 55-70 mm. UpH bears two rows of rounded submarginal greenish-white spots. [144]. Svetlana Shchavelina.
Subspecies Graphium megarus
- G. m. fleximacula (Rothschild, 1895).
- G. m. marthae Toxopeus, 1938.
- G. m. megapenthes (Fruhstorfer, 1902).
- G. m. megarus (Westwood, 1844).
- G. m. sagittiger Fruhstorfer, 1901.
- G. m. senteinus Kalis, 1941.
- G. m. tiomanensis (Eliot, 1978).
- G. m. tistaensis Bang-Haas, 1937.
Authors
Initial species uploading to the site: Peter Khramov.
Photos:
Alex Dumchus. Text data: Svetlana Shchavelina.
Main characteristics formalization: Peter Khramov.
References
- [85] Lepidoptera.ru (Insecta.pro previous version / cтарая версия Insecta.pro)
- [144] Pisuth Ek-Amnuay "Butterflies of Thailand". 2nd Revised edition. Bangkok, 2012
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