Papilio clytia Linnaeus, 1758

Самец Papilio clytia

Taxonomy

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

Species name(s)

Papilio clytia Linnaeus, 1758 = Chilasa clytia = Papilio saturatior = Papilio janus = Papilio similis = Papilio papone = Papilio casyapa = Papilio dissimilis = lanata Fruhstorfer, 1907 = Papilio clytia clytia. [9, 85, PC]

Common Mime.

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Expansion

Zoogeographical regions

Indo-Malayan.

Detailed information with references

Taxonomy, synonyms and combinations

Papilio janus; Papilio saturatior; Chilasa clytia; Papilio similis; Papilio papone; Papilio casyapa; Papilio dissimilis. [PC81].

Imago Habitus and Differences from alike species

Wingspan 75-95 mm. F variable species, they generally occur in two main groups of form, brown and black forms with white markings.
There are 7 variable forms including:
- F. clytia (Linnaeus, 1758), the typical form, is brown with marginal and submarginal white markings,
- F. onpape (Moore, 1879), occurring in the Penincula Thailand and Malaisia, subapical markings of f. clytia are enlarged into streaks.
- F. janus (Fruhstofer, 1908), the white markings of f. clytia replaced by similar black markings.
- F. papone (Westwood, 1872), the white markings of FW are more or less obsolete, the HW bears postdiscal pale internervular streaks of variable extent and both wings are dark brown with an indigo gross of variable intensity.
- F. panope (Linnaeus, 1758), is similar to papone, but HW lacking postdiscal streaks.
- F. dissimilis (Linnaeus, 1758), the pale streaks, though of variable width, are more or less unsullied, whereas those with sullied streaks is known as f. dissimillima.
- F. dissimillima Evans, 1923 [144].

Larva food plants / other food objects

Cinnamomum bejolghota, Cinnamomum verum, Cinnamomum camphora, Elaeocarpus sphaericus, Litsea glutinosa, Litsea monopetala. [144].

Subspecies of Papilio clytia

Papilio clytia anuus (Page & Treadaway, 2003). [85]
P. c. clytia Linnaeus, 1758. [85]
P. c. dissimilina (Evans, 1923). [9]
P. c. duboisi (Page & Treadaway, 2003). [85]
P. c. echidna Boisduval, 1836. [85]
P. c. flavolimbatus Oberthür, 1879. [85]
P. c. gulam (Page & Treadaway, 2003). [85]
P. c. lacedemon Fabricius, 1793. [85]
P. c. lankeswara Moore, 1879. [85]
P. c. palephates Westwood, 1845. [85]
P. c. panope Linnaeus, 1758. [85]
P. c. panopinus Staudinger, 1889. [85]
P. c. partidu (Page & Treadaway, 2003). [85]
P. c. takizawai Miyashita, 1980. [85]
P. c. visayensis (Okano & Okano, 1987). [85]

Authors

Initial species uploading to the site: Peter Khramov.

Photos: Dmitriy Pozhogin, Igor Ivannikov.

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
[PC81] Dmitriy Pozhogin