Papilio memnon Linnaeus, 1758

Имаго Papilio memnon

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 memnon

Species name(s)

Papilio (Princeps) memnon Linnaeus, 1758 = Papilio lowi = Papilio memnon memnoides Fruhstorfer, 1903 = Menelaides memnon = Papilio (Menelaides) memnon = Papilio androgeos Cramer, [1776 = Papilio laomedon Cramer, [1775 = Papilio agenor Linnaeus 1758 = Papilio angustus Chou; Yuan; Wang, 2000 = Papilio memnon memnoides Fruhstorfer , 1903 = Papilio memnon perlucidus Fruhstorfer , 1903 = Papilio memnon clathratus Rothschild, 1896 = Papilio memnon yunnanensis Chou; Yuan; Wang, 2000 = Papilio memnon subclathratus Fruhstorfer , 1903 = Papilio memnon imperiosus Fruhstorfer, 1907 = Papilio memnon sericatus Fruhstorfer, 1899 = Papilio memnon heronus Fruhstorfer, 1902 = Papilio memnon pryeri Rothschild, 1895. [9, 85, 187, PC]

Great Mormon.

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Expansion

This species marks on the maps: 1.

Zoogeographical regions

Indo-Malayan.

Primary colors

Red, Brown/Gray/Black, White.

Detailed information with references

Taxonomy, synonyms and combinations

Papilio lowi. [PC81].

Imago Habitus and Differences from alike species

Papilio memnon agenor Linnaeus, 1758: wingspan 1110-135 mm. Male is black and tailess. Female is polymorphic forms some with a tail some without tail. Those are as follows:
-female f. agenor Linnaeus, 1758
-female f. butlerianus Rothschild, 1895
-female f. esperi Buler, 1879
-female f. rhetenorina Jordan, 1909
-female f. distantianus Rothschild, 1895
-female f. alcanor Cramer, 1777 [144].

Larva food plants / other food objects

Aegle marmelo, Atalantia monophylla, Citrus aurantifolia, Citrus hystrix, Citrus maxima, Citrus medica, Citrus reticulata, Clausena harmandiana, Glycosmic pentaphylla, Murraya koenigii, Toddalia asiatica, Zanthoxylum nitidum, Zanthoxylum limonella. [144].

Subspecies of Papilio memnon

Papilio memnon agenor Linnaeus, 1768. [85]
P. m. anceus Cramer, [1779]. [85]
P. m. caeruleus van Eecke, 1914. [9]
P. m. clathratus Rothschild, 1896. [85]
P. m. coeruleus van Eecke. [85]
P. m. heronus Fruhstorfer, 1902. [85]
P. m. kalaomemnon Hachitani, 1987. [9]
P. m. lowii Druce, 1873. [85]
P. m. memnoides Fruhstorfer , 1903. [85]
P. m. memnon Linnaeus, 1758. [85]
P. m. merapu Doherty, 1891. [85]
P. m. oceani Doherty, 1891. [85]
P. m. perlucidus Fruhstorfer , 1903. [85]
P. m. pryeri Rothschild, 1895. [85]
P. m. sericatus Fruhstorfer, 1899. [85]
P. m. subclathratus Fruhstorfer , 1903. [85]
P. m. tanahsahi Eliot, 1982. [85]
P. m. thunbergi Siebold, 1824. [85]

Authors

Initial species uploading to the site: Peter Khramov.

Photos: Evgenie Bezgrebelnyj, Ianthe Marie Benliro.

Text data: Dmitriy Pozhogin, Svetlana Shchavelina.

The species characteristics formalization: Peter Khramov.

References

[9] Tree of Life (funet.fi), 2012
[85] Lepidoptera species catalogue, Lepidoptera.ru, 2015
[144] Pisuth Ek-Amnuay "Butterflies of Thailand". 2nd Revised edition. Bangkok, 2012
[187] Species 2000, http://www.sp2000.org
[PC81] Dmitriy Pozhogin