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Atrophaneura sycorax (Grose-Smith, 1885)

Taxonomy

class Insecta → subclass Pterygota → infraclass Neoptera → superorder Holometabola → order Lepidoptera → superfamily Papilionoidea → family Papilionidae → subfamily Papilioninae → tribe Troidini → genus Atrophaneura → species Atrophaneura sycorax

Species name(s)

Atrophaneura sycorax (Grose-Smith, 1885) = Papilio egertoni = Papilio sycorax Grose-Smith, 1885. [9, 85, PC]

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Expansion

Zoogeographical regions

Indo-Malayan.

Primary colors

Brown/Gray/Black, White.

Detailed information with references

Taxonomy, synonyms and combinations

Papilio egertoni. [PC81].

Imago Habitus and Differences from alike species

Atrophaneura sycorax egertoni (Distant, 1886). Wingspan 100-120 mm. Both sexes bear prominent white collar at prothorax and with more than the apical half of the body yellowish-white with black markings. UP is black and the distal half of HW (hind - wing) is grayish-blue, with two series of rathr large interneural black spots. [144].

Subspecies of Atrophaneura sycorax

Atrophaneura sycorax egertoni (Distant, 1886). [85]
A. s. hiroyukii Hanafusa, 1993. [85]
A. s. pariwononis Tsukada & Nishiyama, 1979. [85]
A. s. sycorax (Grose-Smith, 1885). [85]

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

[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

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Other species Atrophaneura

Atrophaneura adamsoni (Grose-Smith, 1886)

Atrophaneura aidoneus (Doubleday, 1845)

Atrophaneura alcinous (Klug, 1836)

Atrophaneura coon (Fabricius, 1793)

Atrophaneura crassipes (Oberthür, 1893)

Atrophaneura daemonius (Alphéraky, 1895)

Atrophaneura dasarada (Moore, 1857)

Atrophaneura dixoni (Grose-Smith, 1900)

Atrophaneura hedistus (Jordan, 1928)

Atrophaneura horishana (Matsumura, 1910)

Atrophaneura impediens (Rothschild, 1895)

Atrophaneura kuehni (Honrath, 1886)

Atrophaneura laos Riley & Godfrey, 1921

Atrophaneura latreillei (Donovan, 1826)

Atrophaneura luchti (Roepke, 1935)

Atrophaneura mencius (C. & R. Felder, 1862)

Atrophaneura neptunus (Guérin-Méneville, 1840)

Atrophaneura nevilli (Wood-Mason, 1882)

Atrophaneura nox (Swainson, 1822)

Atrophaneura palu (Martin, 1912)

Atrophaneura plutonius (Oberthür, 1876)

Atrophaneura polla (de Nicéville, 1897)

Atrophaneura polyeuctes (Doubleday, 1842)

Atrophaneura priapus (Boisduval, 1836)

Atrophaneura rhadinus Jordan, 1928

Atrophaneura rhodifer (Butler, 1876)

Atrophaneura semperi (C. & R. Felder, 1861)

Atrophaneura varuna (White, 1842)

Atrophaneura zaleucus (Hewitson, [1865])

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