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Graphium mandarinus (Oberthür, 1879)

Имаго  Graphium mandarinus

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 mandarinus

Species name(s)

Graphium (Paranticopsis) mandarinus (Oberthür, 1879) = Graphium glycerion = Graphium mandarina = Papilio parus de Nicéville, 1900 = Pazala glycerion = Papilio mandarinus = Pazala mandarina = Papilio glycerion caschmirensis Rothschild, 1895 = Graphium glycerion kimurai Murayama, 1982. [9, 85, 187, PC]

The Spectacles Swordtail.

urn:lsid:insecta.pro:taxonomy:15556

Expansion

Zoogeographical regions

Indo-Malayan.

Имаго  Graphium mandarinus

Detailed information with references

Taxonomy, synonyms and combinations

  • Graphium mandarina; Graphium glycerion. [PC81].

Imago Habitus and Differences from alike species

  • Wingspan 40-50 mm. Two spesies of twisted swordtail butterflied used to be known as genus Palaza Moore, 1888, occurring in the highlands of Thailand. This species, UH with two discal rings in spaces 5 and 7, which joined by a single black bar, with semi-transparent wings, markings on UN can be seen through above. HW produced, with a long and twisted swordtail at vein 4, tornal lobes in spaces 3 and 2 rounded, deeply excavated at subtornal area just above the lobe in spase 2. There are two subspecies recorded from two localities, Doi Inthanon and Doi Pha Hom Pok. Generally they looked the same and some authors suggested that subsp. fangana is synonymic to kimurai. [144].

Subspecies of Graphium mandarinus

Authors

Initial species uploading to the site: Peter Khramov.

Photos: Alex Dumchus.

Text data: Dmitriy Pozhogin, Svetlana Shchavelina.

The species characteristics formalization: Peter Khramov.

References

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21.01.2015 18:11, Alex Dumchus

In Pazala

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